Matthew B. Thompson, PhD

Affiliations: 
2014-2016 Psychology University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia 
 2016- School of Psychology and Exercise Science Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia 
Area:
Perceptual expertise
Website:
http://mbthompson.com
Google:
"Matthew Thompson"
Bio:

I am fascinated by perceptual expertise. I am Lecturer in Cognition at Murdoch University, and formerly a Research Scholar at UCLA, and Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Queensland and at Harvard Medical School. I am a Fulbright Scholar, Young Tall Poppy, American-Australian Association Fellow, National Three Minute Thesis Winner, Smart Futures Scholar, and Endeavour Fellow. I am working to reduce error in safety-critical decision making in forensics and medicine, and to better understand the nature and development of perceptual expertise.

Along with Jason Tangen, I run one of the most popular Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on the planet—The Science of Everyday Thinking—on edX.

I travel and take pictures for fun, and am passionate about communicating science, especially to young people. You can read my latest news here, check out my research here, access my publications here, follow me on twitter, or peruse my Academic Curriculum Vitae.

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Palada H, Searston RA, Persson A, et al. (2020) An evidence accumulation model of perceptual discrimination with naturalistic stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Applied
Searston RA, Thompson MB, Vokey JR, et al. (2019) How low can you go? Detecting style in extremely low resolution images. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance
Edmond G, Towler A, Growns B, et al. (2017) Thinking forensics: Cognitive science for forensic practitioners. Science & Justice : Journal of the Forensic Science Society. 57: 144-154
Drew T, Aizenman AM, Thompson MB, et al. (2016) Image toggling saves time in mammography. Journal of Medical Imaging (Bellingham, Wash.). 3: 011003
Edmond G, Found B, Martire K, et al. (2016) Model forensic science Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences. 1-42
Aizenman A, Thompson M, Ehinger K, et al. (2015) Visual search through a 3D volume: Studying novices in order to help radiologists. Journal of Vision. 15: 1107
Thompson MB, Tangen JM. (2014) The nature of expertise in fingerprint matching: experts can do a lot with a little. Plos One. 9: e114759
Thompson MB, Tangen JM. (2014) Generalization in fingerprint matching experiments. Science & Justice : Journal of the Forensic Science Society. 54: 391-2
Thompson MB, Tangen JM, Searston RA. (2014) Understanding expertise and non-analytic cognition in fingerprint discriminations made by humans. Frontiers in Psychology. 5: 737
Thompson MB, Tangen JM, McCarthy DJ. (2014) Human matching performance of genuine crime scene latent fingerprints. Law and Human Behavior. 38: 84-93
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