I generally give a few research-related talks a year, and have done so for 30 years. I believe this to be a fairly complete list of talks given outside my home institution (plus a few inside it).
Selected talks
Wills, A.J. (2026). G-distance: On the comparison of model and human heterogeneity. UCL Centre for Behavioural Data Science. London.
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., Edmunds, C. & Milton, F. (2021). The synthesis of integraldimensions Experimental Psychology Society Conference, online.
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). The OpenModels project in category learning: Progress through distributed collaboration. Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen (TEAP) conference. Invited presentation. London.
Wills, A.J. (2019). Benchmarks in category learning. Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference (ASIC). Austria.
Wills, A.J. (2019). Progress in modelling through distributed collaboration: Concepts, tools, and examples. PRomoting Open Science PRactices (PROSPR) seminars, Lancaster University, UK.
Wills, A.J. (2019). Category learning 2.0? Invited departmental seminar. Lancaster University, UK.
Wills, A.J. (2019). Open science for computational theories of mind. Open Science Symposium, Ghent University, Belgium
Wills, A.J. (2019). Open science and reproducibility in psychology: A practical guide. School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, U.K.
Inkster, A. B., Mitchell, C. J. and Wills, A. J. (2018). Contextual shift and its influence on the Inverse Base Rate Effect. Associative Learning Sympoisum. Gregynog, Wales.
Longman, C.S., Milton, F., Wills, A.J. & Verbruggen, F. (2018). Learning to learn: Transfer of highly abstract representations/strategies across tasks with a common structure Experimental Psychology Society Conference, London, UK.
Wills, A.J. (2017). A practical introduction to distributed collaboration for formal modelling. MathPsy Conference. Invited workshop. Warwick, UK.
Wills, A.J. (2017). Progress in learning theory through distributed collaboration. Associative Learning Sympoisum. Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J. (2017). Progress in modelling through distributed collaboration. International Convention of Psychological Science, Amsterdam.
Wills, A.J. (2017). A practical introduction to distributed collaboration for formal modelling. International Convention of Psychological Science. Invited workshop. Vienna.
Wills, A.J. (2017). Category learning 2.0? Invited departmental seminar, ETH, Zurich.
Wills, A.J. (2017). Category learning 2.0? Invited departmental seminar, University of Cardiff, UK.
Wills, A.J. (2017). Progress in modelling through distributed collaboration. Open Science Research Seminar. Invited presentation. University of Cardiff, UK.
Wills, A.J. (2017). Progress in modelling through distributed collaboration. Experimental Psychology Society. London.
Wills, A.J. (2017). Category learning 2.0? Invited departmental seminar, University of Bristol, UK.
Wills, A.J., & Milton, F. (2016). Neural correlates of similarity- and rule-based generalization Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J. (2016). Combination or differentiation? Two theories of processing order in classification. Invited presentation, Categorization workshop, University of Exeter, UK.
Wills, A.J., & Milton, F. (2016). Neural correlates of similarity- and rule-based generalization Experimental Psychology Society Conference, London, UK.
Wills, A.J., & Inkster, A. (2015). Does analogical transfer only occur in rule-based category learning Experimental Psychology Society Conference, Lincoln, UK.
Wills, A.J., & Inkster, A. (2015). Does analogical transfer only occur in rule-based category learning Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
Edmunds, C. & Wills, A.J. (2015). Concerns with dual-system approaches to cognition. International Convention of Psychological Science, Invited presentation. Amsterdam.
Wills, A.J., Inkster, A. & Milton, F. (2015). Combination or differentiation? Two theories of processing order in classification Experimental Psychology Society Conference, London, UK.
Inkster, A.B., Wills, A.J. & Milton, F. (2014). Does incidental training increase the prevalence of overall similarity classification. Cognitive Science Society Conference, Quebec City, Canada.
Wills, A.J. (2014). Co-author on three graduate student presentations. Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J. (2013). Less is more? Comparative studies of categorization: pigeons, humans and squirrels. Invited presentation to Animal Behaviour Expert Meeting, Ghent, UK.
Wills, A.J. (2013). Discussant. Invited to Learning Through Instructions Expert Meeting, Ghent, UK.
Wills, A.J. & Milton, F. (2013). Less is more? Is overall similarity classification less effortful than single-dimension classification? Experimental Psychology Society Conference, Lancaster, UK.
Wills, A.J. (2013). Topic lost in mists of time. Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J. (2012). Deliberation and categorization. Invited departmental seminar, University of Southampton.
Wills, A.J., Milton, F. & Newell, B. (2012). Associative learning and categorization: In search of system one. Invited presentation, American Psychological Association, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Wills, A.J. & Lavric, A. (2012). Attention and the inverse base rate effect: Evidence from event-related potentials. Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J. (2012). Categorization. Invited presentation, University of Plymouth, UK.
Wills, A.J. (2012). Control and association in categorization. Invited presentation, CCAL group, University of Exeter, UK.
Wills, A.J. (2012). On the adequacy of current empirical evaluations of formal models of categorization. Invited presentation, Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, USA.
Wills, A.J., Longmore, C.A. & Milton, F.N. (2011). Deliberative processes and overall similarity in free classification Psychonomic Society Conference, Seattle, USA.
Wills, A.J. (2011). Mechanisms of rational and irrational generalization in adult humans. Invited by Intelligent Systems Group, Bristol University, UK.
Wills, A.J., Graham, S. Koh, Z., Barrasin, T.J., McLaren, I.P.L. & Rolland, M.D. (2011). Working memory and generalizatin in predictive learning. Cognitive Science Society Conference, Boston, UK.
Wills, A.J. & Lavric, A. (2011). Attention and the inverse base rate effect: Evidence from event-related potentials. Experimental Psychology Society Conference, Oxford, UK.
Wills, A.J., (2010). Comparative studies of categorization. Invited departmental seminar, University of Newcastle, UK.
Wills, A.J. & Lavric, A. (2010). Attention and the inverse base rate effect: Evidence from event-related potentials. Psychonomic Society Conference, St. Louis, USA.
Wills, A.J., (2010). Recurrence and higher-order thought. Invited departmental seminar, University of Nottingham, UK.
Wills, A.J., Mills, E., Rolland, M. & Barrasin, T. (2010). Similarity- and rule-based generalization. Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J. (2009). Processes of overall similarity sorting. Invited talk, Concat group, New York University, USA.
Wills, A.J., Mills, E., Rolland, M. & Barrasin, T. (2009). Similarity- and rule-based generalization in human contingency learning. Psychonomic Society Conference, Boston, USA.
Milton, F. & Wills, A.J. (2009). Eye movement strategies in overall similarity and single-dimension sorting. Cognitive Science Society Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Wills, A.J. (2009). Dual-process accounts of learning. Invited talk, National University Singapore.
Wills, A.J., Beesley, T. & Le Pelley, M. (2009). Syntactic transfer in artificial grammar learning: A free classification and set-variance account. Associative Learning Symposium, Gregynog, Wales.
Wills, A.J., Milton, F. & Longmore, C. (2008). Thinking hard about family resemblance. Invited departmental seminar, Swansea, Wales.
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.