Projects
Biological motion & mid-level vision: Using psychophysical techniques (e.g. the spatio-temporal 'bubbles') to investigate human sensitivity to moving events. Much of our research investigates biological motion perception and the mid-level visual cues observers use when making judgments on these animations; however projects in the lab focus on many aspect of mid-level vision.
Brain imaging and the human STS: Investigating the tuning properties of the biological motion selective STS and the associated cortex, including the human MT complex, occipital cortex, and some regions in the ventral temporal lobe.
Functional specialization on the human STS: Using functional MRI to investigate how the human superior temporal sulcus (STS) and ventral temporal cortex encode biological motion, social events, and complex non-human motion patterns.
TMS & EEG: Investigating the functional characteristics of single pulses of TMS over visual cortex with EEG to predict the interference on perceptual tasks. Specifically looking at the spatio-temporal spread of the impact of the TMS pulse on cortical activity, and how that affects task performance on visual discriminations associated with early visual cortex (V1) and higher cortical areas (the motion-sensitive hMT+ and others).