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In press: Hole, G.J. "Experimental Design". In: Research Methods in Psychology, Fourth Edition, edited by G.M. Breakwell, D.B. Wright and J. A. Smith. London: Sage Publications.   In press: Laurence, S. and Hole, G.J. Identity specific adaptation with composite faces. Visual Cognition.   2011: Laurence, S. and Hole, G. The effect of familiarity on face adaptation. Perception, 40, 450- 463.   2011: Hole, G.J. and George, P.A. Evidence for holistic processing of facial age. Visual Cognition, 19 (5), 585-615.   2011: Hole, G.J. Identity-specific face adaptation effects: evidence for abstractive face representations. Cognition, 119, 216-228.   2011: Briggs, G.F., Hole, G.J., and Land, M.F. Emotionally involving telephone conversations lead to driver error and visual tunnelling. Transportation Research Part F, 14, 313-323.   2010: G. Hole and V.Bourne. "Face Processing: Psychological, Neuropsychological and Applied Perspectives". Oxford: Oxford University Press.   2009: Harrison, G. and Hole, G.J. Evidence for a contact-based explanation of the own-age bias in face recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 16, 264-269.   2009: Bourne, V.J., Vladeanu, M. and Hole, G.J. Lateralised repetition priming for featurally and configurally manipulated familiar faces: evidence for differentially lateralised processing mechanisms. Laterality, 14 (3), 287-299.   2008: G..J. Hole. Predictors of motor vehicle collisions. In: M. Duckworth, T. Iezzi, and W. O'Donohue (eds.) "Motor Vehicle Collisions: Medical, Psychosocial and Legal Consequences". Elsevier.   2007: G.J. Hole. "The Psychology of Driving".Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.   2007: Steede, L. L., Tree, J. J., and Hole, G. J.  I can't recognize your face but I can recognize its movement. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24, 451-466.   2006: Steede, L.L. and Hole, G.J. Repetition priming and recognition of dynamic and static chimeras. Perception, 35, 1367-1382.   2006: Steede, L. L., Tree, J. J., and Hole, G. J. Diss

The psychology of driving: For a long time, I've been interested in the perceptual and attentional aspects of driving. Driving is an extremely demanding activity from a perceptual point of view: drivers have to make rapid decisions on the basis of visual input, such as emerging from a junction without hitting the oncoming traffic. Occasionally failures of detection occur - so-called "looked but failed to see" errors, such as when drivers pull out from a junction into the path of a cyclist or motorcyclist. I'm interested in why these occur, and what can be done to avoid them. You might think that the answer's obvious - that they occur because two-wheelers are hard to see because they are small. However, this is not the explanation. These kinds of accidents usually occur when the motorcyclist or cyclist is close to the emerging vehicle - too close for anyone to take action to redeem the situation. Close-up, physically-small things  produce big images on the retina, so at the time that a driver pulls out in front of a two-wheeler, the latter is casting a pretty big image on the driver's retina, and should therefore be readily detectable. In any case, "look but failed to see" accidents can happen with objectively-conspicuous vehicles too - a few years ago, we investigated accidents in which people drove straight into parked police cars and then claimed not to have seen them! My more recent research is on the effects of using a mobile phone while driving. How does this affect a driver's ability to detect hazards, etc.? Research around the world during the past 15 years or so has consistently shown that hands-free phones are just as bad as hand-held phones as far as driving is concerned. Phones affect driving not so much by making it hard to control the car (although obviously holding a phone doesn't exactly help with steering and using the indicators!) but by taking the driver's attention away from the outside world. Drivers who are using a phone have a restricted bre

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he Psychology of Transport Behaviour February 3rd 2012 Presented by the Institute for Sensible Transport, this seminar will take place on Thursday 19 April 2012 at the Melbourne Town Hall, Yarra Room. 9.30 am - 4.30 pm Cost: $395.00 Tom Vanderbilt is a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. Tom Vanderbilt writes on design, technology, science, and culture, among other subjects, for many publications, including Wired, Outside, The London Review of Books, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, and Popular Science. Seminar Topics by Tom Vanderbilt *  From 'Forgiving Roads' to 'Complete Streets": Changing the Road Safety Paradigm *  The Windshield View: Understanding How Drivers See the World Around Them *  'Modal Bias' - Relations Between Different Road Users *  Behavioural Economics & What It Means for Transport *  The Future of Driving: Smaller, Shared, & Semi-Autonomous *  Travel Behaviour Change and Travel Demand Management And featuring; *  The Psychology of Public Transport - from the planners and passengers perspective (Professor Graham Currie) *  Understanding Melbourne transport patterns: Perceptions and reality (Chris Loader) Visit the website for more information. Registration closes 20 February 2012.