Visual perception in natural scenes

What determines visual sensitivity outside the laboratory? We know a lot about visual sensitivity for bars and gratings presented by themselves, but we know much less about sensitivity for targets in the kinds of complex scenes we normally move around in. In our laboratory we are addressing this in psychophysical experiments. The broad aim is to explore perception in visual environments that are complex yet tractable in both time and space. Interested students would participate in one of these experiments and write a short paper summarising the results of that experiment.

Supervisor: Dr Samuel Solomon
Sesquicentenary Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience,

NH&MRC CJ Martin Fellow

Address: Discipline of Physiology, Room E501, Anderson Stuart Bldg

Email: samuels@physiol.usyd.edu.au
Web: http://www.physiol.usyd.edu.au/span/samuels/