Dr Anna Hughes
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873435
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Location
1.702, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
I completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge, and then worked at University College London and at the University of Exeter. I joined the University of Essex as a Lecturer in 2020. Broadly, I am interested in how humans and other animals perceive the world and how they use this information to make decisions.
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Discovering Psychology: The Science Behind Human Behaviour (PS111)
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Seeing and Hearing (PS414)
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Advanced Statistics for Research (PS947)
Publications
Journal articles (12)
Hughes, AE., Griffiths, D., Troscianko, J. and Kelley, LA., (2021). The evolution of patterning during movement in a large-scale citizen science game.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 288 (1942), 20202823-20202823
Šulc, M., Štětková, G., Jelínek, V., Czyż, B., Dyrcz, A., Karpińska, O., Kamionka-Kanclerska, K., Rowiński, P., Maziarz, M., Gruszczyński, A., Hughes, AE. and Honza, M., (2020). Killing behaviour of adult brood parasites. Behaviour. 157 (12-13), 1099-1111
Hughes, A., Liggins, E. and Stevens, M., (2019). Imperfect camouflage: how to hide in a variable world?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286 (1902), 20190646-20190646
Hughes, AE., Greenwood, JA., Finlayson, NJ. and Schwarzkopf, DS., (2019). Population receptive field estimates for motion-defined stimuli. NeuroImage. 199, 245-260
Šulc, M., Troscianko, J., Štětková, G., Hughes, AE., Jelínek, V., Capek, M. and Honza, M., (2019). Mimicry cannot explain rejection type in a host–brood parasite system. Animal Behaviour. 155, 111-118
Griffiths, AGF., Modinou, I., Heslop, C., Brand, C., Weatherill, A., Baker, K., Hughes, AE., Lewis, J., de Mora, L., Mynott, S., Roberts, KE. and Griffiths, DJ., (2019). AccessLab: Workshops to broaden access to scientific research. PLOS Biology. 17 (5), e3000258-e3000258
Hughes, AE., (2018). Dissociation between perception and smooth pursuit eye movements in speed judgments of moving Gabor targets.. Journal of Vision. 18 (4), 4-4
Hughes, AE., Jones, C., Joshi, K. and Tolhurst, DJ., (2017). Diverted by dazzle: perceived movement direction is biased by target pattern orientation.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284 (1850), 20170015-20170015
Hughes, AE., Southwell, RV., Gilchrist, ID. and Tolhurst, DJ., (2016). Quantifying peripheral and foveal perceived differences in natural image patches to predict visual search performance. Journal of Vision. 16 (10), 18-18
Hughes, AE., Magor-Elliott, RS. and Stevens, M., (2015). The role of stripe orientation in target capture success. Frontiers in Zoology. 12 (1), 17-
Hughes, AE., Troscianko, J. and Stevens, M., (2014). Motion dazzle and the effects of target patterning on capture success. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14 (1), 201-
Troscianko, J., Lown, AE., Hughes, AE. and Stevens, M., (2013). Defeating Crypsis: Detection and Learning of Camouflage Strategies. PLoS ONE. 8 (9), e73733-e73733
Grants and funding
2020
Developing a collaborative framework for naturalistic visual search
British Academy
Conspecific brood parasitism in an altricial passerine: physiological conditionals, behavioural adaptations and fitness consequences
Czech Academy of Sciences