Our paper on what 3D motion signals drive vergence has just been accepted by Scientific Reports. A pre-print will appear very soon.

Relative contributions to vergence eye movements of two binocular cues for motion-in-depth

Martin Giesel^{1, *}, Alexandra Yakovleva², Marina Bloj³, Alex R. Wade⁴, Anthony M. Norcia², and Julie M. Harris¹

¹School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, UK

²Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA

³School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Bradford, UK

⁴Department of Psychology, University of York, UK

Julie gave a talk on counter-shading camouflage at UCL today.

Becky Maguire has taken part in an Explorathon event, engaging with groups of children at Kirkcaldy West Primary School. I guess you could call it a ‘science day’? It was linked to the Explorathon.

This week the group is involved at several presentations at ECVP, KU Leuven:

Predicting the design of salient features in natural environments Olivier Penacchio, Christina G. Halpin, Matthew Wheelwright, John Skelhorn, P. George Lovell, Innes C. Cuthill⁴, Candy Rowe, Julie M. Harris

The effect of surface properties on avoidance behaviour during reaching Constanze Hesse, Martin Giesel, Anna Nowakowska, Julie Harris

This week, the group and collaborators from Newcastle will be presenting work on our aposematism project at the Anti Predator Coloration Symposium, at Exeter University Falmouth Campus.   Speakers will be  Matthew Wheelwright, Julie Harris, Olivier Penacchio and Candy Rowe:

Our paper is out in PNAS:

Asymmetries between achromatic and chromatic extraction of 3D motion signals

Andrew Chua is participating this week  in  the following course: A practical introduction to eye tracking.

This course is taught through Lund University Humanities Lab at the Joint Faculties for Humanities and Theology at Lund University, Lund Sweden

Welcome to summer students Winnie Li (studying iridescence) and Valeriya Ryabchina (studying attention and depth, funded by Laidlaw).

Alex Mitchell passed her PhD viva today, with only typographical errors. Congratulations Dr. Mitchell.

We have presentations this week at the Vision Sciences Society 2019 conference in Florida:

And also from collaborators in Aberdeen: