I'm Hana, a psychology graduate from the Australian National University. I was born in Japan, raised in Singapore, and lived in Australia, so I'm a walking amalgamation of cultures.
As a budding researcher, my interests are centered around visual attention and cognition. My honors thesis examined top-down attention in older adults, and was completed under the supervision of Dr. Stephanie Goodhew.
Outside of research, I dance, volunteer, and listen to true crime podcasts.
Education
2016 - 2019
Australian National University
Awarded a Bachelor of Psychology with Honors (Second Upper). Completed a research-intensive honors' program under the guidance of Dr Stephanie Goodhew.
Research projects include:
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Examining top-down attention in older adults
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Top-down cueing on attentional orientation to facial expressions
2013 - 2016
Temasek Polytechnic (Singapore)
Awarded a Diploma in Psychology Studies. Research projects include:
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Incidental object and scene memory for items in an everyday context
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Created a new battery of language assessments for classifying bilinguals
Publications
Submitted
Yeo, S.C., Yabuki, H., Charoenthammanon, R. S., Gooley, J. J. School start time induces strong resetting of university students’ diurnal learning directed behavior (social jet lag) with implications for grades.
2021
Yabuki, H., & Goodhew, S.C. The efficiency of visual search for a frequently-changed target is preserved in older adults. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
2020
Goodhew, S., Delchau, H., Christensen, B., Lipp, O., O’Kearney, R., Bandara, K., Tan, N., & Yabuki, H. Searching for emotion: A top-down set governs attentional orienting to facial expressions. Acta Psychologica.
Research Experience
* Denotes involvement in drafting, executing, and/or writing up the project
2021-Present
Chronobiology and Sleep Lab, Duke-NUS (Singapore)
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Effects of class start time on sleep
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Sleep duration on learning and memory performance
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Effects of deadlines on sleep behavior
2020
Face Perception Lab, NTU (Singapore)
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*Dependence of serial confidence judgements regarding perception
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*Interplay of race and face perception
2018
Memory, Ageing, and Cognition, NUS (Singapore)
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*Long-term cognitive outcomes for elderly patients with dementia and transient ischaemic strokes
Visual Cognition Lab, ANU (Australia)
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Social anxiety-related biases in top-down attention (Data collection only)
2017
Agency for Technology, Science, and Research (Singapore)
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*Focus groups surveying attitudes of Singaporeans towards technology and mental health
2019
Visual Cognition Lab, ANU (Australia)
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*Top-down attentional deficits in older adults
2016
Agency for Technology, Science, and Research (Singapore)
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*Visual long-term memory for objects in a real-life search task
Not-Research
October 2020 - current
Transient Workers Count Too
I volunteer once a week with The Cuff Road Project. We provide meal tokens for beneficiaries, and talk to migrant workers who are in the midst of dealing with salary disputes and injury claims.
As of mid-2021, I've joined TWC2's public engagement team. I give external talks about migrant workers and the (un)ethical landscape of it in Singapore.
I recently wrote on what migrant workers prioritize as with regards to their daily needs - here is the report.
2019 - current
True crime podcast recommendations
Perhaps an implicit commentary on the horrors of honors year in Australia, I became very engrossed in true crime podcasts while writing my thesis. Here are some of my recommendations:
2017
"Oh, but where are you really from?" Woroni Radio
I joined a friend's radio show that aimed at amplifying the opinions and comments of people of color in our university, given the very white-centric narrative that dominated the issues in our college lives. Here is a link to our interview.