Amy vanWell
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Area of expertise
Cognition and Brain Sciences
Research Interests
I am interested in expanding the methods used by vision scientists to conduct experiments. My focus is on developing the ‘Gazer’ program to harness open-source software for web-based eye tracking. My goal is to create a system for conducting online experiments which tracks participant’s gaze on their computer screen using their laptop camera. I am currently working on publishing results from experiments conducted with Gazer to demonstrate the program’s efficacy as a vision science tool.
The jsPsych-based Gazer code and accompanying Python analysis code will be available on my personal website.
Representative presentations
vanWell, A. & Tanaka, J.W. (2021, November 3-4) Investigating the time course of exogenous attention using a web-based eye-tracking tool [Poster]. OPAM, virtual. (Accepted)
vanWell, A., Liu, X., Martin, J., & Tanaka, J.W. (2021, May 23) Investigating the time course of face perception using web-based eye tracking [Poster]. V-VSS, virtual.
vanWell, A., Liu, X., & Tanaka, J.W. (2020, May 5). Testing hemispheric specialization of holistic face processing at gist and post-gist exposure durations [Presentation]. Different Minds Collaborative Conference, virtual.
Recent awards
- President’s Research Scholarship, University of Victoria (2021-2022)
- CGS-M Alexander Graham Bell Award, NSERC (2021-2022)
- Undergraduate Research Award, NSERC (Summer 2020)
- Undergraduate Research Award, NSERC (Summer 2019)