The Abstracts of the 32nd Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference 1–4 April 2005 Hosted by The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria

The 32nd Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference was hosted and sponsored by the Department of Psychology of the University of Melbourne in April 2005. There were 152 papers presented in five streams over the three days, 57 of which were presented by students. The topics ranged across the spectrum of human experimental psychology, including papers on visual and auditory perception, attention, face perception, language and language processing, memory, categorisation and reasoning, and decision making. The conference was attended by 185 registered delegates, including 75 honours and postgraduate students. Papers were presented by delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Because of the extremely high standard of the student presentations, there were three recipients of the best student paper award. The three winners of this award were Nicole Lees, of the University of Western Sydney, for her paper The Effect of Speaking Style on the Detection of Speech in Noise; Melanie Takarangi, of Victoria University of Wellington, for her paper Blind Drunk: The Effects of Alcohol on Inattentional Blindness, and Ian Gould, of the University of Melbourne, for his paper Attentional Mechanisms in Visual Signal Detection: Signal Enhancement or Uncertainty Reduction?