Active sensing
We use eye tracking and motion tracking to study how observers selectively sample information from complex environments.
Perception · Action · Representation
Bournemouth Perception Lab
We study how sensory information becomes perceptual experience: from sensing and active sampling to the internal representations that shape how the world appears.
Active sampling
Peripheral vision
Computational Modelling
Colour Vision
Perception is an active process. What we experience depends not only on the physical properties of the world, but also on how we sample it with our eyes, hands and other senses.
What we investigate
Our work combines psychophysics, behavioural measurement and computational modelling to understand perception across vision and touch.
Perceptual appearance and performance
Psychophysical experiments let us measure how things appear and how accurately people perform across colour, material, shape, peripheral vision and multisensory tasks.
Computational models
We use computational and machine-learning models as models of perception, as ideal observers, and to study how sensory sampling relates to perceptual representations.
Methods
Our experiments combine controlled laboratory measurements with lifelike stimuli and increasingly naturalistic tasks.
Eye tracking
Motion tracking
Psychophysics
Machine learning
EEG
Pupillometry
Computer graphics
3D printing
Virtual & rendered environments
Motion tracking for active touch and object interaction.