Qualifications BSc. Psych. Hons Class 1 (UNSW), 1997 PhD (UNSW), 2002
My interests include attentional capture; inattentional blindness; false memory; and reasoning and gullibility.
Publications
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Journals
- Boustani, S., Owens, C., Don, H., Yang, C., Shanks, D. (2023). Evaluating the conceptual strategy change account of test-potentiated new learning in list recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 130. [More Information]
- Owens, C., Spehar, B. (2016). Do sudden onsets need to be perceived as new objects to capture attention? The interplay between sensory transients and display configuration. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 78(7), 1916-1925. [More Information]
- Owens, C., White, F. (2013). A five-year systematic strategy to reduce plagiarism amongst first-year psychology university students. Australian Journal of Psychology, 65, 14-21. [More Information]
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Conferences
- Boustani, S., Owens, C. (2020). Does testing potentiate new learning that is equal to, or greater than, initial learning? Evidence for Resource Depletion Accounts. 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Virtual.
- Boustani, S., Owens, C. (2019). Active Tasks and Test-Potentiated Learning, What Works and Why? Experimental Psychology Conference, Wellington, NZ.
- Boustani, S., Owens, C. (2019). Retrieval Potentiates New Learning by Increasing List-Separation, Not Organisation. 60th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, Canada.
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Other
- Owens, C., White, F., Hendry, G. (2014), Enhancing Psychology first year students academic writing skills: identifying the most effective exemplar-based teaching strategy.
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2023
- Boustani, S., Owens, C., Don, H., Yang, C., Shanks, D. (2023). Evaluating the conceptual strategy change account of test-potentiated new learning in list recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 130. [More Information]
2020
- Boustani, S., Owens, C. (2020). Does testing potentiate new learning that is equal to, or greater than, initial learning? Evidence for Resource Depletion Accounts. 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Virtual.
2019
- Boustani, S., Owens, C. (2019). Active Tasks and Test-Potentiated Learning, What Works and Why? Experimental Psychology Conference, Wellington, NZ.
- Boustani, S., Owens, C. (2019). Retrieval Potentiates New Learning by Increasing List-Separation, Not Organisation. 60th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, Canada.
- Boustani, S., Owens, C. (2019). Testing Potentiates New Learning, the Role of Strategy Change and List Segregation. Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Tenerife.
2016
- Owens, C., Spehar, B. (2016). Do sudden onsets need to be perceived as new objects to capture attention? The interplay between sensory transients and display configuration. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 78(7), 1916-1925. [More Information]
2014
- Owens, C., White, F., Hendry, G. (2014), Enhancing Psychology first year students academic writing skills: identifying the most effective exemplar-based teaching strategy.
2013
- Owens, C., White, F. (2013). A five-year systematic strategy to reduce plagiarism amongst first-year psychology university students. Australian Journal of Psychology, 65, 14-21. [More Information]
2012
- Spehar, B., Owens, C. (2012). When do luminance changes capture attention? Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 74(4), 674-690. [More Information]
2008
- Owens, C., Spehar, B. (2008). Unique temporal change does not account for attentional capture by sudden onsets. Visual Cognition, 16(2-3), 307-324. [More Information]
- White, F., Owens, C., Keep, M. (2008). Using a constructive feedback approach to effectively reduce student plagiarism among first-year psychology students. UniServe Science Symposium 2008, Sydney, NSW, Australia: Uniserve Science.
Selected Grants
2006
- Investigation into why and how suddenly appearing stimuli capture our attention., Owens C, University of Sydney/Early Career Researcher