SPUR Project - School of Social Sciences funded bursary

2012 winner (14 of 14)

Information processing in visual perception
Supervisors: Dr Duncan Guest (Social Sciences) and Dr Christina Howard (Social Sciences)

The way in which visual information is processed in order to create a picture of the world we experience is a major research focus within cognitive psychology. Visual information processing is influenced by a range of factors which are typically studied independently. The research project aims to study visual information processing from a systems perspective using computer-based behavioural experiments to examine the influences of each component of the system. Student tasks will include a literature review, contribution to research design, organising and running lab-based experiments, data management and analysis, report writing and dissemination activities.