Graduate Student, Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics
DPHIL
St John's College
Thesis Title: Visual attention and stereoscopic depth perception
Professor Andrew Parker
Dr Holly Bridge
About
Research:
What underlies our ability to detect visual targets with great efficiency ? An attentional ‘searchlight’ sweeps across the scene, but our visual system may also hint where similar targets are located outside of the searchlight: motion and colour sensitive cells in the visual cortex can signal whether unattended stimuli resemble the target [Treue et al.1999, Saenz et al. 2002] by selectively boosting or suppressing their responses. My aim is to take this intriguing finding, shown so far only for elementary features (motion, colour), and apply it to stimuli closer to those we encounter in the real world: stimuli combining motion and 3D cues into a coherent structure (3dSFM).
Broad interests: Cognitive and systems visual neuroscience.
Contact Information
St John's College
OX1 3JP
Oxford
United Kingdom
