“stereo vision is one of the glories of nature”
Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works.
Welcome to my website. I’m a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University. I am a vision scientist, using the detailed measurement of human perception to help develop computer
models of the cortical circuits underlying visual perception, especially “3D” stereo vision. You can use the tabs above to navigate these pages. You’ll find all my published papers and Powerpoint files of many of my talks. If you’re a vision scientist, you might be interested in the technical details of my stereo psychophysics set-up.
If you’re not a scientist, you might prefer to check out this overview of my research or see my public engagement activities. Or you might simply want to look at a random assortment of photographs showing the sorts of activities that go on in my lab.
Please get in touch if you want to know more.
News from the lab
- Jan 2012 – Am currently recruiting two PhD students for next year, one in physiology/ecology, one in 3D displays. Details to follow shortly!
- Jan 2012 - Fredrik‘s PhD thesis accepted by the university; well done Fredrik.
- Jan 2012 – Amused to have my first publication in an ecology journal: a paper on optimal strategy under predation, where unsurprisingly I provided the signal detection theory rather than the ecology expertise.
- Dec 2011 - Fredrik passed his viva with minor corrections: congratulations Fredrik!
- Nov 2011 - Graeme passed his viva with minor corrections: congratulations Graeme!
- Aug 2011 – Once again am enjoying hosting another 3 sixth-formers in my lab doing Nuffield summer projects.
- Jun 2011 – Fredrik‘s latest paper accepted by PLoS Computational Biology.
- Apr 2011 – awarded £41k of NHS funding to examine double vision in strabismus and chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia.
- Nov 2010 – paper on intermittent exotropia in children accepted by Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science.
- Sep 2010 – awarded £500 from EPSRC’s Holmes-Hines fund, towards a cool public engagement exhibit – watch this space!
- Sep 2010 – Ignacio‘s latest paper accepted by Journal of Vision, postulating a difference in the number of disparity channels available for detecting horizontal vs vertical depth corrugations.
- Aug 2010 – Graeme‘s paper accepted in European Journal of Neuroscience, showing that stereo correspondence does not take account of changes in vertical disparity which occur as our eyes move from viewing near to far objects, but remains optimised for far viewing.
- Aug 2010 – am hosting two sixth-formers in the lab this summer on Nuffield projects. Am enjoying their enthusiasm!
- Aug 2010 – New paper accepted in PLoS ONE, on stereo vision in the visual agnosic patient DF, in collaboration with Andrew Parker and David Milner as well as usual suspects Graeme and Ignacio.
- June 2010 – Fredrik‘s first paper accepted in Journal of Vision, on how current models of disparity encoding fail to capture our perception of sine-wave vs square-wave disparity gratings.
- Oct 2009 – New paper with my postdoc Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza and PhD student Graeme Phillipson out in Journal of Vision, reporting that we are sensitive to discontinuities in vertical disparity.
- Feb 2010 – awarded £8,000 NHS Flexibility and Sustainability Funding to support Deborah Buck working on intermittent exotropia.
- Feb 2010 – awarded £18,586 NHS Flexibility and Sustainability Funding to support Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza working on visual tests for cortical inhibition.
- Jan 2010 – New paper using my quantal analysis software out in Journal of Neuroscience.
- Oct 2009 – New paper with my PhD student Graeme Phillipson and with Andrew Glennerster of Reading University out in Journal of Vision, on definitions on vertical disparity.
- Sep 2009 – awarded Graduate Diploma in Psychology, with distinction.
- Jun 2009 – beginning study on children with squint.
- Mar 2009 – added Matlab code for several of my papers.
- Jan 2009 – Ignacio’s first paper with me out in Journal of Vision.
- Dec 2008 – New paper out in Journal of Neurophysiology.
- Sep 2008 – Fredrik Allenmark begins his PhD in the lab.
- Jul 2008 – Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza begins as a postdoc in the lab.
- Oct 2007 – applications invited for 4-year Wellcome Trust PhD programme at Newcastle
- Aug 2007 – New paper in Nature Neuroscience.
- Apr 2007 – added a list of companies which supply passive stereo projection solutions
- Mar 2007 – added videos illustrating epipolar geometry
- Mar 2007 – awarded a New Investigator Award by the Medical Research Council.
- Mar 2007 – added a section on the MP-pairing scheme.
- Nov 2006 – New paper in Journal of Vision.
- Aug 2006 – wrote website for Psychology Ethics Committee
- May 2006 – added library of sciart images
I am testing this cool functionality!