Sixth-formers

Summer of 2018

Hannah Akotei, from Sacred Heart Catholic High School, and Zoe Collier, from Cardinal Hume Catholic School, won bursaries from the Nuffield Foundation to do a summer project in my lab. They have been helping us with the ongoing development of our Asteroid 3D vision test, in particular measuring the effect of viewing distance on performance and also getting user feedback on a new version of the test. Hannah was awarded North East Young Scientist of the Year for her project and her presentation of it, and is now going on to the National finals.

Hannah Akotei

Hannah Akotei


 

Summer of 2016

Maeve Woodhouse, from Haydon Bridge Community High School and Sports College, worked with Kathleen Vancleef on our Asteroid 3D vision test.

Publications with Woodhouse M

Vancleef K, Read JCA, Herbert W, Goodship N, Woodhouse M, Serrano-Pedraza I (2017)
Overestimation of stereo thresholds by the TNO stereotest is not due to global stereopsis.
Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics 37(4) 507-520

Vancleef K, Read JCA, Herbert W, Goodship N, Woodhouse M, Serrano-Pedraza I (2018)
Two choices good, four choices better: For measuring stereoacuity in children, a four-alternative forced-choice paradigm is more efficient than two
PLoS ONE 13(7): e0201366 1-15

Serrano-Pedraza I, Vancleef K, Herbert W, Goodship N, Woodhouse M, Read JCA (2020)
Efficient estimation of stereo thresholds: What slope should be assumed for the psychometric function?
PLOS ONE


 

Summer of 2011

Alice McDonald

Andrew Lucas

Shah Farzana Begum

 

Alice, from Central Newcastle High School, and Andrew and Farzana, from Heaton Manor School, won bursaries from the Nuffield Foundation to do a summer project in my lab. Their projects compared performance with binocular vision versus monocular vision on three different perceptual/manual tasks.

Publications with Begum SF

Read JCA, Begum SF, McDonald A, Trowbridge J (2013)
The binocular advantage in visuomotor tasks involving tools
i-Perception 4 101–110


Publications with McDonald A

Read JCA, Begum SF, McDonald A, Trowbridge J (2013)
The binocular advantage in visuomotor tasks involving tools
i-Perception 4 101–110


Publications with Lucas AD

Read JCA, Robson JH, Smith CL, Lucas AD (2012)
The scintillating grid illusion is enhanced by binocular viewing
i-Perception 3(10) 820–830

Summer of 2010



Gloria Young


Claire Brash

Claire Brash



Gloria, from Gosforth High School, and Claire, from Central Newcastle High School, won bursaries from the Nuffield Foundation to do a summer project in my lab. Gloria worked on stereoacuity with partially correlated random-dot patterns, and went on to read Natural Sciences at Cambridge. Claire worked on temporal frequency tuning of surround suppression, and went on to read Medicine at Imperial. She later came back to volunteer in my lab over the vacation, resulting in authorship on a paper.

Publications with Brash C

Serrano-Pedraza I, Brash C, Read JCA (2013)
Testing the horizontal-vertical stereo anisotropy with the critical-band masking paradigm
Journal of Vision 13(11):15 1-15

Read JCA, Georgiou R, Brash C, Yazdani P, Whittaker R, Trevelyan A, Serrano-Pedraza I (2015)
Moderate acute alcohol intoxication has minimal effect on surround suppression measured with a motion direction discrimination task
Journal of Vision 15(1):5 1-14