Research Interests

In my lab, we're curious about temporal aspects of human visual information processing - how quickly do different cortical modules and stages process information, and how are they coordinated in time? We use behavioral experiments, illustrated by the animations below, to compare speed limits for different features and the dynamics of how these features are bound into a coherent percept. One coordination problem occurs because when an object moves across the visual field, it stimulates different populations of neurons in early visual cortex, so we're testing how the signals from different areas are combined by later stages of the brain. Recently, we've begun experiments to see how temporal limits constrain our perception of the position of moving objects.

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Grants

• 2011-15 "New agendas for the study of time: Connecting the disciplines", Templeton Foundation Grant 2011.
• 2011-13 "Perceiving and tracking moving objects", Australian Research Council, Discovery Projects 2011.
• 2010-13 "Position perception, attention, object motion, and action", Australian Research Council, Future Fellowship 2009.

Previous Appointments