Research Area
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I am interested in understanding the computational and neural mechanisms underlying visual perception. This area of research might be described as the "computational neuroscience of visual cognition". |
Research Aims
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Neuroscience & Psychology  Computing & Robotics |
Creating explicit, testable, theories in the form of computational
simulations or robotic systems to investigate the function and
development of the cortical visual system. Extracting the computational principles used by the brain in order to create biologically inspired neural network architectures for computer vision and machine learning. |
Research Interests
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Neural Computationtheoretical and computational neuroscience; neural information processing and coding; systems neuroscience; cognitive neuroscience; dendritic computation; cortical feedback connections; cortical region interactions; hierarchical and modular neural networks; sparse coding; predictive coding. |
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Visual Perceptionvisual cognition; visual attention; biased competition; top-down and contextual influences; visual salience; image segmentation; object recognition; machine vision; viewpoint invariance; pattern recognition; categorisation; perceptual expertise; perceptual inference. |
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Learning and Developmentcortical, behavioural and cognitive development; constructivism; perceptual learning; perceptual and conceptual development; epigenetic and developmental robotics; unsupervised and competitive learning; clustering and classification; deep learning; machine learning. |