I generally give a few research-related talks a year, and have done so for about 25 years. I’m slowly adding them to this page, as time permits.
Selected talks
Wills, A.J. (2026). Explorations in Human-Centered AI. Departmental research talk. School of Psychology, University of Southampton.
Wills, A.J. (2025). G-distance: On the comparison of model and human heterogeneity. European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). Sheffield.
Wills, A.J. (2025). G-distance: On the comparison of model and human heterogeneity. Experimental Psychology Society. London.
Wills, A.J. (2023). The Inverse Base-rate Effect: Sixty Years of Partial Progress. Invited seminar, Department of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Wills, A.J. (2023). Beyond Goodness of Fit. Invited workshop, Cognitive Science Graduate School, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Wills, A.J. (2023). The Inverse Base-rate Effect: Sixty Years of Partial Progress. Invited seminar, Cognitive Science Colloquium Series, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Wills, A.J. (2022). From SPSS to R at Plymouth Psychology. Teaching Statistics Seminar Series, Department of Statistical Science, University College London (virtual).
Wills, A.J. (2022). From SPSS to R at Plymouth Psychology. Teaching Statistics with R in Psychology Symposium, Department of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University (virtual meeting).
Wills, A.J. (2022). Why computers suck but you are great! Categorization of everyday objects by humans and machines. Invited lecture (online), Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Wills, A.J. (2021). Why computers suck but you are great! Categorization of everyday objects by humans and machines. Invited talk, Psychology, University of Exeter.
Wills, A.J. (2021). From SPSS to R at Plymouth Psychology. Teaching R seminar, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University (virtual meeting).
Wills, A.J. (2021). Human-level object classification performance in deep neural networks? School of Psychology Conference, University of Plymouth (virtual meeting).
Wills, A.J. (2020). The OpenModels Project. Open Research Working Group, MRC-CBU, Cambridge (virtual meeting).
Wills, A.J. (2019). On esteem: Rewarding reproducible science. School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, U.K.
Wills, A.J. (2019). Open science and reproducibility in psychology: A practical guide. School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, U.K.
Wills, A.J. (2017). Progress in modelling through distributed collaboration. Experimental Psychology Society. London.
Wills, A.J. (2007). Brain systems of error avoidance. MIRCE Akademy, Exeter.
Wills, A.J., Longmore, C.A. & Milton, F. (2007). Unsupervised categorization: Analytic and non-analytic processes. Experimental Psychology Society. Edinburgh.
Wills, A.J. & Welham, A. (2007). Unitization during categorization Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J., Milton, F. & Longmore, C.A.(2007). Analytic and non-analytic processes: Classification in adult humans. From Associations to Rules Workshop. Amsterdam.
Wills, A.J. (2006). Unitization during categorization Departmental talk, Psychology, Indiana University.
Wills, A.J. (2006). Algorithms for cue competition: Suggestions from EEG and eye-tracking data. Annual conference of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, Bristol.
Wills, A.J. (2006). Formation of category representations. Associative Learning Symposium. Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J. (2006). Various topics. Associative learning symposium, Cambridge University.
Wills, A.J. (2005). Predictive learning, prediction errors and attention: Evidence from event-related potentials and eye-tracking. Departmental seminar, National University Singapore.
Wills, A.J. (2005). Topic lost in the mists of time. Associative Learning Symposium. Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J. (2005). Perceptual and unsupervised learning. Departmental seminar, Max Planck Institute, Tubigen.
Wills, A.J., Ellett, L. & Lea, S.E.G. (2004). Acquisition of polymorphous concepts. Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago.
Wills, A.J., Beesley, T. & Croft, G. (2004). Processes of polymorphous concept acquisition. Experimental Psychology Society. Lancaster.
Wills, A.J. & Lavric, A. (2004). Attention, blocking and ERP. Human Associative Learning workshop, Lignely, Belgium.
Wills, A.J. & Lavric, A. (2004). ERP reveals early attentional effects in a human blocking study. Associative Learning Symposium. Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J. (2004). Free classification and perceptual learning. Departmental seminar, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London.
Wills, A.J. & Zwickel, J. (2003). Can there be error correction in the absence of error? Experimental Psychology Society. Exeter.
Wills, A.J. (2002). Adapting to a response deadline in categorization. 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. George Mason University, Washington.
Wills, A.J., Ellett, L., & Lea, S.E.G. (2002). Polymorphous category acquisition: reasons for difficulty. Experimental Psychology Society. Cambridge University.
Wills, A.J., Ellett, L., & Lea, S.E.G. (2002). Polymorphous category acquisition. Associative Learning Symposium. Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J. (2002). Categorization symposium. UCL, London
Wills, A.J. & Lochmann, T. (2001). Effects of cue relevance on future associability in an allergy prediction task. Associative Learning Symposium. Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J., & Ellett, L. (2001). The curious case of the polymorphous concept. Departmental seminar. Department of Psychology, University of Bristol.
Wills, A.J., Suret, I.P.L. & McLaren (2000). Categorization and the ratio rule. Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, USA.
Wills, A.J. (2000). Categorization and the ratio rule. Experimental Psychology Society. Cambridge, U.K.
Wills, A.J., Suret, M. & McLaren, I. (2000). Perceptual learning, categorization and running recognition. Associative Learning Symposium. Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J., Jones, F., Reimers, S., Stewart, N., Suret, M. & McLaren, I. (2000). Categorical decisions. Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University. U.K.
Wills, A.J., Chung, I., Moberly, N. & Suret, M. (1999). Secondary generalization, categorization and single-feature reversal. Associative Learning Symposium. Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J., & McLaren, I.P.L. (1998). Perceptual learning and free classification. X Conference of the Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology, Almeria.
Wills, A.J. (1998). Perceptual learning and free classification. Departmental seminar, Department of Psychology, Warwick University.
Wills, A.J. (1998). Category learning. Gluck lab seminar, Rutgers University.
Wills, A.J., & McLaren, I.P.L. (1998). Perceptual learning and free classification. Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog.
Wills, A.J. (1997). Category learning. Departmental seminar, Department of Psychology, University of Southampton.
Wills, A.J., & McLaren, I.P.L. (1997). Generalization in category learning: One and two category problems. 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stanford.
Wills, A.J., & McLaren, I. (1996). Decision mechanisms in category learning. VIII Conference of the Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology. Torremolinos, Malaga.
Wills, A.J., & McLaren, I. (1995). Decision mechanisms in categorisation. Experimental Analysis of Behaviour Group. University College London.