Recent papers

•Acuity in autism: not so “eagle-eyed” (coverage)

1. •The aperture problem in natural scenes (link)
   

• Crowding depends on illusory position (movie, link)

What we do

Cells in the retina respond to small parts of images: the eye delivers the brain a fragmented world-view. Research in my lab focuses on integration - how the brain turns a patchwork of local neural activity into coherent global percepts - and what happens when the process goes wrong.

News

1. •The image on the right depicts one of the stimuli from a recent project looking at how we estimate the number of objects in a scene. We show this skill is intimately related to knowing objects’ spacing from one another. It’s out in early edition at PNAS