The Stewart Lab
We’re a brand new lab studying how humans perceive objects and their proprties, how they make predictions and inferences based on these proprties, and how they make decisions, and plan motor behaviours such as eye and hand movements. We use a variety of techniques including behaviour, psychophysics, eye-tracking, computational modelling and computer graphics.
You’ll find us in the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences at Queen Mary University of London.
Lab members
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Research
Object perception
How do humans perceive and make inferences about objects based on their physical properties such as the shape or geometry of an object? How do such inferences influence behaviour?
Projects:
– Object viewpoint perception (read more)
– Shape perception and eye movements
Eye movement planning
How do humans plan eye movemnts? What sort of information do we use to determine where we look?
Projects:
– Eye movements guided by object utility and geometry (read more)
Prediction and past history
How do we use past experience to predict what will happen next, and how does this affect perception and oculomotor control?
Projects:
– Serial dependence in smooth pursuit eye movements
Transsaccadic perception
Humans make 2-3 eye movements per second – how do we perceive a seamless and stable world, despite the constant change of retinal input?
Read more
Funding
2021-2024
DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; German Research Council)
340,000 Euro
Collaborators
Ruth Rosenholtz (MIT/NVIDIA, USA)
Casimir Ludwig (University of Bristol, UK)
Roland Fleming (JLU Giessen, Germany)
Ben Wolfe (University of Toronto, Canada)
Anna Ma-Wyatt (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Join us!
If you’re interested in a postdoctoral or PhD position, please get in touch to discuss opportunities.
Current positions open:
Funded PhD studentship