ProfessorBart Anderson

Project Opportunities

Title: Understanding visual experience: The visual perception of 3D shape, material, and colour

Summary of opportunity:

My lab is dedicated to understanding what shapes our visual experience of the world. Our goal is to discover the information that the brain uses to extract meaningful properties of the world, and to use these insights to manipulate our perceptual experience. Unlike most areas of psychology, our results can usually be universally experienced, and we have had great success in generating a host of illusions that have shed light on how the human visual system works.

Opportunity synopsis:

We are currently working on a number of related projects that are designed to discover how your brain seems to effortlessly recover structure and material properties of the world from the images that reach your eyes. This is an extraordinarily complicated problem, and attracts some of the best minds in machine intelligence and machine vision as well as psychology. Our lab focuses on construction and manipulating graphical interfaces to develop and test theories of visual functioning, and we have had continued success in publishing our work in some of the most prestigious outlets in science, biology, and psychology.