Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130100969
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$374,998.00
Summary
The impact of expertise on visual processing: assessment of a new model. How is it that trained visual experts see things that elude most of us when looking at the same stimulus? This project proposes and tests a new theoretical framework for understanding how experience changes perception, with implications for optimising visual training programs that can contribute to public health and safety.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190101043
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$404,956.00
Summary
Tackling facial prejudice. This project aims to investigate individual differences in facial prejudice, a powerful psychological bias whereby people rely on inaccurate first impressions to guide key decisions, such as whom to trust. Utilising recent advances in electrophysiology, the project will develop a new neural marker of individual differences in facial impressions that lead to prejudice. The project expects to lead to insights into the link between visual perception and social behaviour, ....Tackling facial prejudice. This project aims to investigate individual differences in facial prejudice, a powerful psychological bias whereby people rely on inaccurate first impressions to guide key decisions, such as whom to trust. Utilising recent advances in electrophysiology, the project will develop a new neural marker of individual differences in facial impressions that lead to prejudice. The project expects to lead to insights into the link between visual perception and social behaviour, and to develop strategies to reduce facial prejudice given the pervasive influence it has on everyday life.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130101663
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$374,650.00
Summary
Multisensory integration in complex stimuli. Our world is often filled with sights and sounds competing for attention. A recent discovery shows that synchronised changes in vision and sound make an object stand out and easier to find. This project tests the limits of this binding process and its scope to go wrong and 'mis-bind' signals in very cluttered environments.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE180100806
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$393,996.00
Summary
Understanding image segmentation in the human brain. This project aims to understand how the human brain segments complex visual scenes into individual objects. Image segmentation is a prerequisite for everyday tasks such as visual search, object recognition, and visual navigation, yet the underlying neural mechanisms are only partially understood. This project will apply advanced neuroimaging techniques to investigate image segmentation in the human brain at multiple levels of the visual proces ....Understanding image segmentation in the human brain. This project aims to understand how the human brain segments complex visual scenes into individual objects. Image segmentation is a prerequisite for everyday tasks such as visual search, object recognition, and visual navigation, yet the underlying neural mechanisms are only partially understood. This project will apply advanced neuroimaging techniques to investigate image segmentation in the human brain at multiple levels of the visual processing hierarchy. Outcomes from this project will strengthen Australia's contribution to the fields of visual neuroscience and neuroimaging. In the long-term, a deeper understanding of complex visual processing in the human brain has the potential to inform the development of artificial vision systems.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120101334
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Sensory prediction: the role of forward modelling in visual processing. Because of motion, patterns of light received by our eyes contain inherent structure across space and time, a fact which the brain exploits to form predictions about future patterns of visual input. This project will determine how these predictions are constructed from motion signals system and what role they play in visual processing.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190100459
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$356,668.00
Summary
Human sensitivity to the dynamics of other people's eye movements. This project aims to understand how the patterns of eye movements that we observe in other people can affect our perception of them and the world around us. In everyday social interactions, other people's eyes can convey crucial information about their goals and the focus of their attention. This project will use rigorous methods for studying visual perception, combined with 3D graphical modelling of faces that are engineered to ....Human sensitivity to the dynamics of other people's eye movements. This project aims to understand how the patterns of eye movements that we observe in other people can affect our perception of them and the world around us. In everyday social interactions, other people's eyes can convey crucial information about their goals and the focus of their attention. This project will use rigorous methods for studying visual perception, combined with 3D graphical modelling of faces that are engineered to perform complex eye movements. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the areas of visual perception and social neuroscience, shedding light on the brain mechanisms that underlie human social behaviour.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100125
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$385,536.00
Summary
Human visual perception: Connecting genes, brain and behaviour. This project aims to reveal the relationship between genes, brain and behaviour in visual perception, where underlying brain activity can be decoded from electrical signals. Modern molecular genetics promises unprecedented insights into human psychology. But progress has been slower than expected because the brain mechanisms linking genes to behaviours are incredibly complex. Project results are expected to show how common variation ....Human visual perception: Connecting genes, brain and behaviour. This project aims to reveal the relationship between genes, brain and behaviour in visual perception, where underlying brain activity can be decoded from electrical signals. Modern molecular genetics promises unprecedented insights into human psychology. But progress has been slower than expected because the brain mechanisms linking genes to behaviours are incredibly complex. Project results are expected to show how common variations in genes affect our brain's response to visual stimulation, and how this in turn alters our perceptual experience and behavioural reactions. These discoveries aim to cast new light on the architecture and development of the mind, and provide a new model for investigating the genetic basis of other psychological traits.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101734
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$371,220.00
Summary
The temporal dynamics of conscious object perception . We live in a constantly changing visual world. Thus a key inferential challenge that the human brain must solve is whether ongoing visual input represents a single object varying over time (for example, one person moving through a scene), or two distinct objects (for example, two different people successively occupying the same location). This project will investigate, for the first time, how the brain optimises this inference by using infor ....The temporal dynamics of conscious object perception . We live in a constantly changing visual world. Thus a key inferential challenge that the human brain must solve is whether ongoing visual input represents a single object varying over time (for example, one person moving through a scene), or two distinct objects (for example, two different people successively occupying the same location). This project will investigate, for the first time, how the brain optimises this inference by using information about context, whether the flexibility of the inference process reduces with ageing, and the role of the two main visual pathways in this inference. This will enhance our knowledge of this fundamental process in vision, and our ability to promote optimal functioning into later life.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120100653
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
The predictive brain and control of anticipatory actions. The ability to predict events in a dynamic environment is an important skill for survival as it can guide our actions when time pressures are severe. How predictions come about to guide our actions is not clear and project results will have great theoretical significance to understand how we generate them.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101181
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$384,183.00
Summary
How Do Our Past Decisions Affect Our Present Decisions? – An Innovative Model. Decisions under time pressure made in the past have a tendency to affect our current decisions. This phenomenon is often termed ‘sequential effects’. Typically, sequential effects are explained by positing the existence of a psychological mechanism that is specifically aimed at resolving conflicting information. The aim of this project is to develop a computational model that produces sequential effects naturally. Inn ....How Do Our Past Decisions Affect Our Present Decisions? – An Innovative Model. Decisions under time pressure made in the past have a tendency to affect our current decisions. This phenomenon is often termed ‘sequential effects’. Typically, sequential effects are explained by positing the existence of a psychological mechanism that is specifically aimed at resolving conflicting information. The aim of this project is to develop a computational model that produces sequential effects naturally. Innovatively, this model would remove the need for an explicit conflict monitoring mechanism. This project is significant because it progresses our understanding of how humans deal with conflict. The expected outcome is a comprehensive, quantitative account of sequential effects in human decision making.Read moreRead less