ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT0992123

Funded Activity Summary

Seeing the forest and the trees: Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying recognition of individual objects and sets. When confronted with a set of similar objects, such as a crowd of faces or a flow of oncoming cars, human observers can rapidly and seemingly automatically extract summary statistics of these sets of objects (e.g., mean expression or location). This research will provide insights into how the human visual system executes this massive feat of computation. This represents a vital step in understanding vision in general and in eventually applying our knowledge to the development of artificial vision systems and to rehabilitation of visual disorders. The research will also investigate the effects of attentional load on perception of summary statistics of the environment, which is critical for tasks such as driving in busy traffic.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 17-01-2010

End Date: 31-12-2016

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $674,650.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Behavioural and cognitive sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Psychology | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance

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