People

John joined the department of Experimental Psychology at UCL in 2013. Prior to this he completed his Ph.D. at the Australian National University with Mark Edwards, and postdoctoral research fellowships at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology with Steven Dakin and Peter Bex from 2008-2010, and at the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception of the Université Paris Descartes with Patrick Cavanagh from 2011-2013.

Email: john.greenwood@ucl.ac.uk

Alexandra completed her undergraduate degree at Royal Holloway, and first joined the eccentric vision lab for her M.Res. in Cognitive Neuroscience, for which she investigated the interaction between crowding and face recognition. She began her Ph.D. in 2015, which is comparing crowding in our peripheral vision with the elevations in crowding that arise in the central vision of children with amblyopia. Her project uses both behavioural psychophysics and functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Email: alexandra.smith.13@ucl.ac.uk

John Greenwood

Principal investigator

collaborators

Mark Edwards (Australian National University)

Steven Dakin (University of Auckland)

Peter Bex (Northeastern University)

Patrick Cavanagh (Université Paris Descartes)

Annegret Dahlmann-Noor (Moorfields Eye Hospital)

Maria Theodorou (Moorfields Eye Hospital)

Sam Schwarzkopf (University College London)

Sam Solomon (University College London)

Alexandra Kalpadakis-Smith

Ph.D. student

Michael Parsons

M.Sc. student

Yishi Liu

Third-year project student

Xuan Kai Lee

Third-year project student

Michael completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Essex and joined the lab to conduct research towards his M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience. His project examined the effects of crowding on motion and colour and whether they can be attributed to the same underlying mechanisms.

Yishi conducted a research project in the third year of her B.Sc. Psychology, co-supervised with Sam Solomon, as well as follow-on research over the following summer. Her work examined the perception of position, and whether position can be considered in the same light as other visual features like motion, using adaptation as a tool.

Kai conducted a research project in the third year of his B.Sc. Psychology, also co-supervised with Sam Solomon. His project examined position perception and considered whether these judgements can be considered in the same way as visual features like motion, with specific reference to distortions in perceived position that arise when performing certain judgements.

people

alumni

Tessa Dekker (University College London)

Valerie Goffaux (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Anita Simmers (Glasgow Caledonian University)

Stephanie Goodhew (Australian National University)

Bilge Sayim (University of Bern)

Martin Szinte (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Alan Johnston (University of Nottingham)

Tony Redmond (Cardiff University)

Kate Earnshaw

Third-year project student

Kate conducted a research project as an intercalated medical student, spending a year in the Division of Psychology on a project co-supervised with Sam Solomon. Her project examined motion-induced illusions of position perception and whether we can account for these effects using a population coding approach.

Joseph Danter

Third-year project student

Joe conducted a research project in the third year of his B.Sc. Psychology degree. His project examined the perceptual outcomes of crowding across the visual field, and whether this is modulated by individual differences in the size and shape of the visual field.

Rhiannon Finnie

Third-year project student

Rhiannon conducted a research project as an intercalated medical student, spending a year in the Division of Psychology. Her research project examined the perceptual outcomes of crowding and their relationship with known properties of retinotopic coding within the visual system.

Fatima joined the lab in the first year of her Ph.D. in the UCL SenSyt program. She conducted the second of her two 6-month rotations with us, using behavioural psychophysics to investigate individual differences in crowding and to develop new methodologies for the rapid measurement of these effects. She is currently completing her PhD research in Jennifer Linden’s lab at the UCL Ear Institute.

Fatima Ali

Ph.D. rotation student

After an undergraduate degree in orthoptics at the University of Liverpool and an M.Sc. in Clinical Ophthalmology at UCL, Vijay worked for several years as a research orthoptist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, with a focus on childhood amblyopia that has already produced several publications to date. Vijay began his PhD in September 2016 to examine the visual deficits associated with congenital nystagmus using behavioural psychophysics, eye tracking, and functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Email: vijay.tailor.09@ucl.ac.uk

Vijay Tailor

Ph.D. student

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Jemma joined the lab in the first year of her B.Sc. Psychology degree to assist in experiments on visual crowding. In her second year, she received a Bradshaw-Eagle Summer Research Scholarship from the Applied Vision Association to design and conduct research on face recognition and our perception of position, which she then continued as her third-year project in the lab.

Jemma Davoudian

Third-year project student

Kamilla Dombai

M.Sc. student

Kamilla conducted her masters project in the lab as part of the M.Sc. Psychological Sciences program. Her project examined crowding effects on motion and colour perception, comparing the disruptive effect on these visual dimensions in peripheral vision with the disruptions that affect foveal vision in cases of strabismic amblyopia and during normal development.

Branavy Somasundaram

Third-year project student

Branavy joined the lab as an intercalated medical student, spending a year in the Division of Psychology. Her third-year research project examined the disruptive effect of crowding on colour and motion perception, with a specific focus on their variation across the peripheral visual field.

Anna Giedroyc

Third-year project student

Anna conducted a research project in the third year of her B.Sc. Psychology degree. Her project examined the perceptual outcomes of crowding for judgements of colour and motion, with a comparison of the variation in these effects across the peripheral visual field.

Annie completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Manchester and is currently on a Ph.D. rotation project in the BBSRC LIDo program. She joined the lab in February 2019 to examine variations in face recognition across the visual field, in collaboration with Tessa Dekker and Valérie Goffaux. Her project will involve both behavioural psychophysics and functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Email: annie.morsi.18@ucl.ac.uk

Annie Morsi

Ph.D. student

Katarina Jerotic

Third-year project student

Katarina is a third year B.Sc. Psychology student, joining the lab for her final year dissertation project. Her project is examining the perceptual outcomes of crowding and their variation across the visual field, using a combination of psychophysics and eye tracking techniques.

Marilia Kyprianou

Third-year project student

Marilia is a third year B.Sc. Psychology student in the lab for her final year dissertation project. Her project examines the developmental trajectory of crowding effects in foveal/central vision in typically developing children, in collaboration with Tessa Dekker and the UCL Child Vision Lab.