LABORATORY OF VISION & COGNITION
Disciplines of Physiology, Anatomy & Histology, in the
School of Medical Sciences, at The University of Sydney.
We study cognition and vision, using behavioural and neurophysiological techniques.
See the Projects page, or the Publications page, for some of the recent work.
| LABORATORY HEAD | Sam Solomon |
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I am interested in the work done by the eye and the brain to analyse the visual world and support visual perception. I'm particularly interested in the way that basic properties of networks of nerve cells at each level of the visual pathway determine visual sensitivity. In physiological experiments the functional properties of individual neurons and groups of neurons are studied. In perceptual experiments the sensitivity of human observers is studied. I use computational models to link these two sets of observations. |
| ASSISTANT | Cindy Guy |
| PROGRAMMERS | Will Dobbie, Peter Farleigh |
| RESEARCH FELLOWS | Dr Stefano DiMarco (collaborative project with Dr Dario Protti) |
| Dr Aaron Camp |
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| PhD Candidates | Erin
Weston (collaborative project with A/Prof Colin Clifford) In 2006 Erin Weston won the Colin Dunlop Prize from the Discipline of Physiology for Best Honours Thesis for her project in the lab. |
| Ken Cheong (The University of Melbourne) (collaborative project with Prof Paul Martin) |
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| COLLABORATORS | Prof Paul Martin, Dr Chris Tailby NVRI |
| A/Prof Colin Clifford, Dr Scott McDonald, School of Psychology | |
| Prof John Morley, UWS |