The Vision and Language Group is a multidisciplinary group of researchers working on key issues in vision, visual cognition and language comprehension. These range from fundamental questions about how visual information is encoded in biological systems to how this information is used as a basis for encoding and understanding written language.

Researchers in the group use a range of techniques including psychophysics, electrophysiology, computational modeling and eye movement recording to study sensory and cognitive processing in the brain from the level of individual neurons to the behaviour of the organism as a whole.

The group supports an active community of postgraduate researchers working on a variety of topics. Informal enquiries about studying in this area are most welcome.  For volunteer opportunities please see information about volunteers.

Research themes

Researchers  

Useful links

• Full list of publications from the Vision and Language Group since 2006
• Vision and Language Group Meeting/Seminar programme
• Vision and Language Group photo gallery
• Vision and Language volunteer research internship programme
• The NeuroEngineering Lab, Department of Engineering

Selected recent research papers (full list from 2006)

Duke, P.A., Oruç, I., Qi, H. and Backus, B.T. (2006).  Depth aftereffects mediated by vertical disparities: Evidence for vertical disparity driven calibration of extraretinal signals during stereopsis. Vision Research. 46, 228-241.

Hutchinson, C.V. and Ledgeway, T. (2007). Asymmetric spatial frequency tuning of motion mechanisms in human vision revealed by masking. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 48, 3897-3904.

Jordan, T.R., Paterson, K.B., & Stachurski, M. (2008).  Re-evaluating split-fovea processing in word recognition: Effects of word length.  Cortex, in press.

Rushton, S. K. and Duke, P.A. (2007). The use of direction and distance information in the perception of approach trajectory. Vision Research, 47, 899-912.

Shimozaki, S. S., Chen, K. C., Abbey, C. K. and 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.

White, S.J. (2008). Eye movement control during reading: Effects of word frequency and orthographic familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 205-223.