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Visual Cognition & Attention
Research on this topic focuses primarily on the role of vision and visual perception in human performance. The fundamental aim of this work is to identify the cognitive processes and neurological mechanisms underlying various visual tasks. Studies involving neurologically healthy volunteers examine issues such as face recognition and identification, eyewitness testimony, person detection, emotion processing, pattern and motion recognition.
This research also examines a range of psychological disorders, including unilateral visual neglect, addiction, dementia, and persistent vegetative state. Researchers are interested in examining the cognitive nature of these disorders, including assessing attentional biases, visual experiences and neurological activity. Much of this work also has an applied motivation, for example using transcranial direct current stimulation to alleviate deficits in neurological patients.
Members of the group
Core academic staff
- Dr Markus Bindemann
- Dr Joseph Brooks
- Dr Heather Ferguson
- Professor Bob Johnston
- Dr Dinkar Sharma
- Dr Ulrich Weger
- Dr David Wilkinson
Research staff & Doctoral students
- Hamood Alenezi
- Dr James Cane
- Sarah Hotham
- Agnieszka Lech
- Rachel Moore
- Andy Russ
- Dr Serena Vanzan
- Dr Olga Zubko