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Overview

Tom Foulsham is affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their research spans several interconnected domains with a strong focus on cognitive and developmental aspects of visual processing and behavior.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Subfields of study where they have published include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Education

The primary research topics covered in their work are:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology

Tom Foulsham has published in several scholarly venues, frequently contributing to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Vision
  • Scientific Reports
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • International Journal of Developmental Disabilities

The scientist has collaborated extensively with colleagues, often co-authoring papers with:

  • Alan Kingstone
  • Astrid Priscilla Martinez-Cedillo
  • Dimitri Ognibene
  • Phoebe Morris
  • Edward Hope

Recent notable publications by Tom Foulsham include:

  • RETRACTED ARTICLE: Eye tracking: empirical foundations for a minimal reporting guideline (2022) published in Behavior Research Methods
  • Eye gaze and visual attention as a window into leadership and followership: A review of empirical insights and future directions (2022) published in The Leadership Quarterly
  • Visual search in ADHD, ASD and ASD + ADHD: overlapping or dissociating disorders? (2020) published in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Parent-reported social-communication changes in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK (2021) published in International Journal of Developmental Disabilities
  • Turning the (virtual) world around: Patterns in saccade direction vary with picture orientation and shape in virtual reality (2020) published in Journal of Vision

Best Publications

  • Two ways to the top: evidence that dominance and prestige are distinct yet viable avenues to social rank and influence.

    Joey T. Cheng;Jessica L. Tracy;Tom Foulsham;Alan Kingstone

  • The where, what and when of gaze allocation in the lab and the natural environment.

    Tom Foulsham;Esther Walker;Alan Kingstone

  • What can saliency models predict about eye movements? Spatial and sequential aspects of fixations during encoding and recognition

    Tom Foulsham;Geoffrey Underwood

  • Social attention with real versus reel stimuli: toward an empirical approach to concerns about ecological validity.

    Evan F. Risko;Kaitlin E. W. Laidlaw;Megan Freeth;Tom Foulsham

  • Potential social interactions are important to social attention

    Kaitlin E. W. Laidlaw;Tom Foulsham;Gustav Kuhn;Alan Kingstone

  • Gaze allocation in a dynamic situation: effects of social status and speaking.

    Tom Foulsham;Joey T. Cheng;Jessica L. Tracy;Joseph Henrich

  • Visual saliency and semantic incongruency influence eye movements when inspecting pictures

    Geoffrey Underwood;Tom Foulsham

  • What Affects Social Attention? Social Presence, Eye Contact and Autistic Traits

    Megan Freeth;Tom Foulsham;Alan Kingstone

  • Speaking and Listening with the Eyes: Gaze Signaling during Dyadic Interactions

    Simon Ho;Tom Foulsham;Alan Kingstone

  • It depends on how you look at it: Scanpath comparison in multiple dimensions with MultiMatch, a vector-based approach

    Richard Dewhurst;Marcus Nyström;Halszka Jarodzka;Tom Foulsham

  • Eye movements during scene inspection: A test of the saliency map hypothesis

    Geoffrey Underwood;Tom Foulsham;Editha van Loon;Louise Humphreys

  • How does the purpose of inspection influence the potency of visual salience in scene perception

    Tom Foulsham;Geoffrey Underwood

  • Is attention necessary for object identification? Evidence from eye movements during the inspection of real-world scenes

    Geoffrey J. Underwood;Emma Templeman;Laura Lamming;Tom Foulsham

  • Turning the world around : Patterns in saccade direction vary with picture orientation

    Tom Foulsham;Alan Kingstone;Geoffrey Underwood

  • Mind wandering in sentence reading: decoupling the link between mind and eye.

    Tom Foulsham;James Farley;Alan Kingstone

  • Leftward biases in picture scanning and line bisection: a gaze-contingent window study.

    Tom Foulsham;Alexander Gray;Eleni Nasiopoulos;Alan Kingstone

  • Saliency and scan patterns in the inspection of real-world scenes: Eye movements during encoding and recognition

    Geoffrey Underwood;Tom Foulsham;Katherine Humphrey

  • Reading Without Words: Eye Movements in the Comprehension of Comic Strips

    Tom Foulsham;Dean P Wybrow;Neil Cohn

  • Fixation-dependent memory for natural scenes: an experimental test of scanpath theory.

    Tom Foulsham;Alan Kingstone

  • On the dynamics of social hierarchy: A longitudinal investigation of the rise and fall of prestige, dominance, and social rank in naturalistic task groups.

    Daniel J Redhead;Joey T Cheng;Charles Driver;Tom Foulsham

  • Understanding sources of social desirability bias in different modes: Evidence from eye-tracking

    Olena Kaminska;Tom Foulsham

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Kingstone
Alan Kingstone University of British Columbia
Geoffrey Underwood
Geoffrey Underwood University of Nottingham
Christoph Klein
Christoph Klein University of Freiburg
Evan F. Risko
Evan F. Risko University of Waterloo
Nikolaos Smyrnis
Nikolaos Smyrnis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Jason J. S. Barton
Jason J. S. Barton University of British Columbia
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jessica L. Tracy
Jessica L. Tracy University of British Columbia
Gustav Kuhn
Gustav Kuhn Plymouth University
Derrick G. Watson
Derrick G. Watson University of Warwick

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