Zachary Hamblin-Frohman

Zachary Hamblin-Frohman is a Research Fellow at the School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland. His academic career is centered on experimental cognitive psychology with a focus on visual attention and working memory processes.

Dr. Hamblin-Frohman completed his PhD at The University of Queensland in 2022 with his thesis titled Attentional templates in visual attention and working memory: exploring the levels of attentional guidance and representation. His research interests primarily include visual attention mechanisms, visual working memory systems, and the cognitive processes underlying visual search. He employs various methodologies including eye-tracking, EEG, and behavioral experiments to investigate how attentional templates guide search, how visual working memory interacts with attentional selection, and the inhibitory mechanisms in visual processing.

His publication record from 2019-2025 demonstrates consistent contributions to top journals including Cognition, Journal of Vision, and Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. His work reveals important insights about how attentional templates operate in different search contexts, how visual working memory items interfere with each other, and how inhibition guides visual search even under cognitive load. A notable trend across his publications is the examination of both relational and feature-based processing in visual cognition.

Mr. Hamblin-Frohman is currently available for research supervision at The University of Queensland, though specific supervisees are not listed in available materials. His collaborative work primarily involves Stefanie I. Becker, with additional collaborations including Pratt, Jay; Xia, Hongfeng; Qiu, Zeguo; and other cognitive neuroscience researchers.