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Daniel Baker

Dr Daniel Baker from the Department of Psychology at the University of York is interested in how the brain processes visual information. He uses a combination of psychophysical tasks (where participants make simple judgements about visual patterns) and neuroimaging techniques to record brain activity, as well as computational modelling. He is interested in a number of questions about how the brain combines signals, e.g. across the two eyes. One interesting example of this is a condition called amblyopia ('lazy eye'), in which the eyes are very unbalanced in their sensitivity. His work on understanding the underlying problems in this condition paved the way for the development of new treatments, some of which will be discussed in the talk.