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 |
| RESEARCHERS | Dr Stefano DiMarco (collaborative project with Dr Dario Protti) |
Dr Sander Pietersen (collaborative project with Prof Paul Martin) |
| PhD CANDIDATES | Selina Solomon |
| Saba Gharaei (In 2010 Saba shared the Colin Dunlop Prize for Best Honours Thesis in the Discipline of Physiology) |
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| Ken Cheong (collaborative project with Prof Paul Martin) |
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| COLLABORATORS | Prof Paul Martin, Save Sight Institute |
| Prof Colin Clifford, Dr Scott McDonald, School of Psychology | |
| Prof John Morley, UWS | |
| Dr Chris Tailby, University of Melbourne | |
| Prof Peter Lennie, University of Rochester | |
| ALUMNI | Dr Erin Goddard Honours 2006. Awarded Honours First Class. PhD Candidate 2007-10. (Collaborative projects with Prof Colin Clifford). (In 2006 Erin won the Colin Dunlop Prize for Best Honours Thesis in the Discipline of Physiology) |
| Dr Aaron Camp Postdoctoral research fellow 2007-9. (Now a Lecturer at Discipline of Biomedical Sciences, Sydney) |
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| Arnab Ahmed Honours 2010. Awarded Honours First Class. (Now a PhD candidate at School of Psychology) |
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| Nathan Coorey Honours 2009. Awarded Honours First Class. (Now a PhD candidate at Save Sight Institute) |
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| Rajiv Wijesinghe Honours 2009. Awarded Honours First Class. (Now doing GMP) |
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| Lucy Parakhina Honours 2008. Awarded Honours First Class. |