School of Psychology

Visual Neuroscience

visual-neuroscience

How the brain maps our world

The Visual Neuroscience Group investigates the fundamental psychophysical, neural and computational principles of sensory processing. 
 

This group investigate all aspects of visual processing, including motion processing, spatial vision, temporal vision, colour perception, binocular vision, ocular motor control, neural plasticity and normal and abnormal visual development. There is also a clinical focus on understanding and treating disorders of vision, such as amblyopia and macular degeneration.

Recent projects and publications 

Recently funded projects include mapping the topography of somatosensory cortex (BBSRC) and normal and abnormal mechanisms of plasticity in visual cortex (ERC).

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Researchers

haallen
Harriet Allen
Professor

I measure the neural processes of combining sensory information. My recent research has found differences in the relationship between perception and attention in obesity, autism, and ageing and has applied this to human factors, vehicle design, and the everyday environment.

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Matias Ison
Associate Professor

My interdisciplinary research programme addresses a variety of topics in the field of cognitive neuroscience. I am particularly interested in: i) studying episodic memory formation, taking advantage of an extraordinary opportunity to record the simultaneous activity of single neurons in awake humans, ii) understanding how information is represented in the brain, iii) developing data analysis techniques to bridge the gap between eye movements and EEG recordings.

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Alan Johnston
Professor of Psychology

Most of my work is related to the perception of motion, from building computational models of motion processing in the human visual system to investigating the perception of dynamic change in the face. 

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paulmcgraw
Paul McGraw
Professor of Visual Neuroscience

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jonathanpeirce
Jon Peirce
Professor

I also have a strong personal interest in how we optimally study the brain and the visual system in particular. This led me to create the free psychophysics software library, PsychoPy.

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Neil Roach
Professor

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Denis Schluppeck
Associate Professor

Co-organiser of (and teacher on) the MSc in Brain Imaging, plus involvement in research for neuroscience, vision, functional magnetic resonance imaging and MRI data analysis.

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Chris Scholes
Chris Scholes
Assistant Professor

Although I am in the visual neuroscience group, I am interested in the general question of how the brain processes sensory information (not just visual!) and how this affects behaviour and motor output.

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DomenicaVeniero
Domenica Veniero
Assistant Professor

My research interests focus on two main areas. The first is the role of brain oscillations in both long-range cortical communication and local brain activity, with a specific interest in top down control of visuo-spatial attention, visual processing and motor cortex excitability. The second is the effect of brain stimulation (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation - TMS) on cortical excitability and behavioural performance.

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