Experimental Psychology Seminar - Andrew Meso, KCL
Dr Andrew Meso, Kings College London, joins us to discuss the impact and importance of psychophysical research.
Experimental Psychology Seminar - Andrew Meso, KCL
09 Jan 2024, 13:00 – 15:00
Location:
Room 500, 25 Gordon Street
Zoom :
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/92985972281?pwd=MS9PSzdpUStoNFpkQXVsQUVGbDRxdz09
Meeting ID: 929 8597 2281 Passcode: 224269
Abstract:
I am part of a dwindling number of researchers who still use simplified visual psychophysical tasks (gratings, dots or when splashing out - luminance noise) alongside eye movement recordings and theory, to shed light on sensory mechanisms. I will first present theoretical work which asks whether Elementary Motion Detectors initially proposed for insect vision could serve human visual perception and predict interesting perceptual phenomena. I will then discuss results of a ball tracking task which taps into global mechanisms and isolates potentially learned from hard wired predictive signatures of sensorimotor processing. I will argue that such 'boring' tasks provide a high precision probe that can contribute to building better models of the typical and atypical sensory brain.
Andrew Meso
Researcher
Kings College London
I am a computational neuroscientist and experimental psychologist interested in vision science who works in the neuroimaging department at King's. I don't really do any imaging, but I tell KCL that I will, one day. I have previously held a lectureship at Bournemouth University, and did long postdocs in Marseille, France and Montreal, Canada, within multidisciplinary Neuroscience and Ophthalmology labs. My early studies were in the University of London where I covered Physics, Medical physics then Comp Neuro/Experimental Psych and this included a spell at UCL.