Research Topics

• Visual attention and eye movements of normal observers and patients, lightness/brightness perception, spatial vision

Lab members

• Arena, Amanda (postgraduate) - motion and ageing
• Bryant, Elizabeth (postgraduate) - attention and schizophrenia
• Waterhouse, Eleanor (postgraduate) - attention, driving and ageing

Recent Publications (from 2006)

• Shimozaki, S. S., Schoonveld, W. A., & Eckstein, M. P.  A unified Bayesian observer analysis for set size and cueing effects on perceptual decisions and saccades.  Journal of Vision, in press.
• Arena, A., Hutchinson, C., & Shimozaki, S. S. (2012). The effects of age on the spatial and temporal integration of global motion. Vision Research, in press.
• Shimozaki, S. S. (2010). Uncued and cued dynamics measured by response classification. Journal of Vision, 10(8):10, 1-27.
• Abbey, C. K, Pham, B, Shimozaki, S. S., & Eckstein, M. P. (2008). Contrast and stimulus information effects in rapid learning of a visual task. Journal of Vision, 8(2):8, 1-14, http://journalofvision.org/8/2/8/, doi:10.1167/8.2.8.
• Shimozaki, S. S., Chen, K. C., Abbey, C. K., & Eckstein, M. P. (2007). The temporal dynamics of selective attention of the visual periphery as measured by classification images. Journal of Vision, 7(12):10, 1-20, http://journalofvision.org/7/12/10/, doi:10.1167/7.12.10.
• Schoonveld, W. A., Shimozaki, S. S., & Eckstein, M. P. (2007). Optimal and suboptimal models of single fixation oddity search predict a shallow set size function. Journal of Vision, 7(10):1, 1-16, http://journalofvision.org/7/10/1/, doi:10.1167/7.10.1.
• Eckstein, M. P., Beutter, B. R., Pham, B., & Shimozaki, S. S., & Stone, L. S. (2007). Similar neural representations of the target for both saccades and perception during search. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 1266-70.
• Shimozaki, S. S., Kingstone, A., Olk, B., Stowe, R., & Eckstein, M. P. (2006). Classification images of two right hemisphere patients: A window into the attentional mechanisms of spatial neglect. Brain Research, 1080, 26-52.
• Eckstein, M. P., Drescher, B., & Shimozaki, S. S. (2006). Attentional cues in real scenes, saccadic targeting and Bayesian priors. Psychological Science, 17, 973-80.