Alex Holcombe

Alex Holcombe is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney. His research spans two major domains: perception and attention (investigating visual information bottlenecks and temporal processing) and meta-science (advancing open science and reproducibility through tools like tenzing.club and editorial roles in open-access journals).

• Education: PhD in Psychology (Harvard), BA in Psychology and Cognitive Science (University of Virginia)
• Editorial Roles: Associate editor for WikiJournal of Science, Collabra: Psychology, and Meta-psychology

His experimental psychology work uses behavioral studies to reveal limits in visual processing speed, feature binding, and attentional resource allocation. Key findings include the role of naps in learning, parietal lobe function in rapid letter processing, and temporal binding dynamics in perception.

Recent publications focus on peer review reform (2025 PNAS), contributorship attribution (2024 Accountability in Research), and visual cognition (2024 Journal of Vision). These works reflect his dual commitment to understanding perceptual mechanisms and improving scientific practices.

• Advising: Mentors PhD students including De-wei DAI, Jye MARCHANT, and Rasmus PEDERSEN
• Labs: Leads research on visual perception and attentional bottlenecks
• Grants: 2024 Core Funding Grant for object tracking research