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Daniel H. Baker
Honorary Professor

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Biography

Daniel studies sensory perception, particularly binocular vision, using a range of methods including psychophysics, EEG, MRI, MEG and computational modelling. He also has interests in conditions such as amblyopia and autism. He was a member of faculty at York from 2013-2024. He is now based in California, working in industry.

Career

  • 2023-2024 - Professor, University of York
  • 2017-2023  - Senior Lecturer, University of York
  • 2013-2017 - Lecturer, University of York
  • 2009-2012 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Aston University
  • 2007-2009 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southampton
  • 2004-2007 - PhD in Human Vision, Aston University
  • 2000-2003 - BSc(Hons) Psychology, University of Nottingham

Research

Overview

Human vision, binocular vision, spatial vision, masking, amblyopia, binocular rivalry, computational modelling, psychophysical methods

Grants

2023 - Enhancing Research Culture award, 'ReproduceMe: a pilot project for computational reproducibility' (£10000)

2022 - BBSRC Impact Acceleration Account, 'Imaging human circadian rhythm networks' (£9500)

2021 - BBSRC research grant, 'Non-canonical binocular pathways in human vision' (£595896)

2015 - Centre for Chronic Diseases and Disorders (C2D2) Career Establishment Grant, "Objective measures of visual improvement in amblyopia following treatment" (£99875)

2014 - University of York strategic capital funding, "An MRI-compatible 3D projector" (£39659)

2013 - Royal Society Research Grant, "Binocular architecture of lateral inhibitory processes in human vision" (£13434).

Publications

Selected publications

Front cover of Research Methods Using R

Baker, D.H. (2022). Research Methods Using R: Advanced Data Analysis in the Behavioural and Biological Sciences. Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780192896599, [preprint] [ebook] [ebook] [GitHub] [website].

Full publications list

See also my Google scholar profile, York Research Database profile, and this list of published abstracts.

  1. Baker, D.H., Berg, M., Hansford, K.J., Quinn, B.P.A., Segala, F.G. & Warden-English, E. (2024). ReproduceMe: lessons from a pilot project on computational reproducibility, Meta-Psychology, 8: MP.2023.4021 [DOI].
  2. Gofton, H., Rodriguez, H., Sheridan-Guest, T., Baker, D.H. & Humpston, C. (2024). Associations between early experiences of thought interference and auditory-verbal hallucinations with first-rank symptoms and suicidality in adulthood. BJP Open, 10: e157, [DOI].
  3. Baker, D.H. (2024). Chapter 32: Visual processing of spatial form. In Levin, L.A., Kaufman, P.L. & Hartnett, M.E. (Eds), Adler’s Physiology of the Eye, 12th Edition, 638-648, Elsevier Health Sciences, ISBN: 9780323834063.
  4. Dahlmann-Noor, A.H., Greenwood, J.A., Skilton, A., Baker, D.H., Abbas, M., Clay, E., Khandelwal, P., Dunham, D., Ludden, S., Davis, A., Dehbi, H. & Dakin, S.C. (2024). Feasibility of a new ‘balanced binocular viewing’ treatment for unilateral amblyopia in children age 3–8 years (BALANCE): results of a phase 2a randomised controlled feasibility trial. BMJ Open, 14: e082472, [DOI].
  5. Hansford, K.J., Baker, D.H., McKenzie, K.J. & Preston, C.E.J. (2024). Multisensory processing and proprioceptive plasticity during resizing illusions, Experimental Brain Research, 242: 451-462, [DOI].
  6. Baker, D.H., Marinova, D., Aveyard, R., Hargreaves, L.J., Renton, A., Castellani, R., Hall, P.,  Harmens, M., Holroyd, G., Nicholson, B., Williams, E.L., Hobson, H.M. & Wade, A.R. (2023). Temporal dynamics of normalization reweighting, Journal of Vision, 23(12):6, [DOI].
  7. Segala, F.G., Bruno, A., Martin, J.T, Aung, M.T., Wade, A.R. & Baker, D.H. (2023). Different rules for binocular combination of luminance flicker in cortical and subcortical pathways, eLife, 12: RP87048, [DOI].
  8. Nebe, S., Reutter, M., Baker, D.H., Bölte, J., Domes, G., Gamer, M., Gärtner, A., Gießing, C., Gurr, C., Hilger, K., Jawinski, P., Kulke, L., Lischke, A., Markett, S., Meier, M., Merz, C.J., Popov, T., Puhlmann, L.M.C., Quintana, D.S., Schäfer, T., Schubert, A., Sperl, M.F.J., Vehlen, A., Lonsdorf, T.B & Feld, G.B. (2023). Enhancing precision in human neuroscience, eLife, 12: e85980, [DOI].
  9. Martin, J.T., Boynton, G.M., Baker, D.H., Wade, A.R. & Spitschan, M. (2023). Psysilsub: An open-source Python toolbox for implementing the method of silent substitution in vision and nonvisual photoreception research, Journal of Vision, 23(7): 10, 1-16, [DOI].
  10. Hansford, K.J., Baker, D.H., McKenzie, K.J. & Preston, C.E.J. (2023). Distinct neural signatures of multimodal resizing illusions, Neuropsychologia, 187: 108622, [DOI].
  11. Bruno, A., Segala, F.G. & Baker, D.H. (2023). A purely visual adaptation to motion can differentiate between perceptual timing and interval timing, Proc R Soc B, 290: 20230415, [DOI].
  12. Meese, T.S., Baker, D.H. & Summers, R.J. (2023). Blurring the boundary between models and reality: visual perception of scale assessed by performance, PLoS ONE, 18(5): e0285423, [DOI].
  13. Meese, T.S. & Baker, D.H. (2023). Object image size is a fundamental coding dimension in human vision: new insights and model. Neuroscience, 514: 79-91, [DOI].
  14. Dahlmann-Noor, A., Greenwood, J.A., Skilton, A., Baker, D.H., Ludden, S., Davis, A., Dehbi, H. & Dakin, S.C. (2022). Phase 2a randomised controlled feasibility trial of a new ‘Balanced Binocular Viewing’ treatment for unilateral amblyopia in children age 3-8 years: trial protocol. BMJ Open, 12(5): e051423, [DOI].
  15. Baker, D.H., Summers, R.J., Baldwin, A.S. & Meese, T.S. (2022). A psychophysical performance-based approach to the quality assessment of image processing algorithms. PLoS ONE, 17(5): e0267056, [DOI].
  16. Heywood-Everett, E., Baker, D.H. & Hartley, T. (2022). Testing the precision of spatial memory representations using a change-detection task: effects of viewpoint change. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 34(1): 127-141, [DOI].
  17. Knowland, V.C.P., Baker, D.H., Gaskell, G., van Rijn, E., Walker, S.A., Norbury, C. & Henderson, L. (2022). Neural responses to novel and existing words in children with autism spectrum and developmental language disorders, Journal of Cognition, 5(1): 14, [DOI].
  18. Baker, D.H., Vilidaite, G. & Wade, A.R. (2021). Steady-state measures of visual suppression. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(10): e1009507, [DOI].
  19. Baker, D.H. (2021). Statistical analysis of periodic data in neuroscience. Neurons, Behavior, Data Analysis and Theory, 5(3): 1-18, [DOI].
  20. Baker, D.H., Vilidaite, G., Lygo, F.A., Smith, A.K., Flack, T.R., Gouws, A.D. & Andrews, T.J. (2021). Power contours: optimising sample size and precision in experimental psychology and human neuroscience. Psychological Methods, 26(3): 295-314, [DOI].
  21. Lygo, F., Richard, B., Wade, A.R., Morland, A.B. & Baker, D.H. (2021). Neural markers of suppression in impaired binocular vision. Neuroimage, 230: 117780, [DOI].
  22. Gray, K.L.H., Flack, T.R., Yu, M., Lygo, F.A. & Baker, D.H. (2020). Nonlinear transduction of emotional facial expression. Vision Research, 170: 1-11, [DOI].
  23. Baker, D.H., Vilidaite, G., McClarnon, E., Valkova, E., Bruno, A. & Millman, R.E. (2020). Binaural summation of amplitude modulation involves weak interaural suppression. Scientific Reports, 10: 3560, [DOI].
  24. Ho, N.S.P., Baker, D.H., Karapanagiotidis, T., Seli, P., Wang, H.T., Leech, R., Bernhardt, B., Margulies, D., Jefferies, E. & Smallwood, J. (2020). Missing the forest because of the trees: slower alternations during binocular rivalry are associated with lower levels of visual detail during ongoing thought. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 6(1): niaa020, [DOI].
  25. Coggan, D.D., Giannakopoulou, A., Ali, S., Goz, B., Watson, D.M., Hartley, T., Baker, D.H. & Andrews, T.J. (2019). A data-driven approach to stimulus selection reveals an image-based representation of objects in high-level visual areas. Human Brain Mapping, 40(16): 4716-4731, [DOI].
  26. Coggan, D.D., Baker, D.H. & Andrews, T.J. (2019). Selectivity for mid-level properties of faces and places in the fusiform face area and parahippocampal place area. European Journal of Neuroscience, 49: 1587-1596, [DOI].
  27. Baker, D.H. & Richard, B. (2019). Dynamic properties of internal noise probed by modulating binocular rivalry, PLoS Computational Biology, 15(6): e1007071, [DOI].
  28. Kang, S., Hayashi, Y., Bruyns-Haylett, M., Baker, D.H., Boura, M., Wang, X., Karatzas, K., Serra, I., Bithell, A., Williams, C., Field, D.T. & Zheng, Y. (2019). Supplemental vitamin B-12 enhances the neural response to sensory stimulation in the barrel cortex of healthy rats but does not affect spontaneous neural activity. Journal of Nutrition, 149(5): 730-737, [DOI].
  29. Vilidaitė, G., Marsh, E. & Baker, D.H. (2019). Internal noise in contrast discrimination propagates forwards from early visual cortex. Neuroimage, 191: 503-517, [DOI].
  30. Vilidaite, G., Norcia, A.M., West, R.J.H., Elliott, C.J.H., Pei, F., Wade, A.R. & Baker, D.H. (2018). Autism sensory dysfunction in an evolutionarily conserved system. Proc R Soc B, 285(1893): 20182255, [DOI].
  31. Baker, D.H., Lygo, F.A., Meese, T.S. & Georgeson, M.A. (2018). Binocular summation revisited: beyond √2. Psychological Bulletin, 144(11): 1186-1199, [DOI].
  32. Benjamin, A.V., Wailes-Newson, K., Ma-Wyatt, A., Baker, D.H. & Wade, A.R. (2018). The effect of locomotion on early visual contrast processing in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(12): 3050-3059, [DOI].
  33. Richard, B., Chadnova, E. & Baker, D.H. (2018). Binocular vision adaptively suppresses delayed monocular signals. Neuroimage, 172: 753-765, [DOI].
  34. Chadnova, E., Reynaud, A., Clavagnier, S., Baker, D.H., Baillet, S. & Hess, R.F. (2018). Interocular interaction of contrast and luminance signals in human primary visual cortex. Neuroimage, 167: 23-30, [DOI].
  35. Vilidaite, G. & Baker, D.H. (2018). Psychophysical measurement of the effects and non-effects of TMS on contrast perception. Brain Stimulation, 11(4): 956-957, [DOI].
  36. Pirrone, A., Wen, W., Li, S., Baker, D.H. & Milne, E. (2018). Autistic traits in the neurotypical population do not predict increased response conservativeness in perceptual decision making. Perception, 47: 1081-1096, [DOI].
  37. Meese, T.S., Baker. D.H. & Summers, R.J. (2017). Perception of global image contrast involves transparent spatial filtering and the integration and suppression of local contrasts (not root-mean-square contrast). Royal Society Open Science, 4: 170285, [DOI].
  38. Vilidaitė, G., Yu, M. & Baker, D.H. (2017) Internal noise estimates correlate with autistic traits. Autism Research, 10(8): 1384-1391, [DOI].
  39. Coggan, D.D., Allen, L.A., Farrar, O.R.H., Gouws, A.D., Morland, A.B., Baker, D.H. & Andrews, T.J. (2017). Differences in selectivity to natural images in early visual areas (V1-V3). Scientific Reports, 7: 2444, [DOI].
  40. Cunningham, D.G.M., Baker, D.H. & Peirce, J.W. (2017). Measuring nonlinear signal combination using EEG. Journal of Vision, 17(5): 10, [DOI].
  41. Smith, A.K., Wade, A.R., Penkman, K.E.H. & Baker, D.H. (2017). Dietary modulation of cortical excitation and inhibition. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 31(5): 632-637, [DOI].
  42. Baker, D.H. & Wade, A.R. (2017). Evidence for an optimal algorithm underlying signal combination in human visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 27: 254-264, [DOI].
  43. Baker, D.H. (2017). Decoding eye-of-origin outside of awareness. Neuroimage, 147: 89-96, [DOI].
  44. Vilidaite, G. & Baker, D.H. (2017). Individual differences in internal noise are consistent across two measurement techniques. Vision Research, 141: 30-39, [DOI].
  45. Baker, D.H., Kaestner, M. & Gouws, A.D. (2016). Measurement of crosstalk in stereoscopic display systems used for vision research. Journal of Vision, 16(15): 14, [DOI].
  46. Georgeson, M.A., Wallis, S.A., Meese, T.S. & Baker, D.H. (2016). Contrast and lustre: a model that accounts for eleven different forms of contrast discrimination in binocular vision. Vision Research, 129: 98-118, [DOI].
  47. Coggan, D.D., Baker, D.H. & Andrews, T.J. (2016). The role of visual and semantic properties in the emergence of category-specific patterns of neural response in the human brain. eNeuro, 3(4): e0158-16.2016, 1-10, [DOI].
  48. Baker, D.H. & Meese, T.S. (2016). Grid-texture mechanisms in human vision: Contrast detection of regular sparse micro-patterns requires specialist templates. Scientific Reports, 6: 29764, [DOI].
  49. Coggan, D.D., Liu, W., Baker, D.H. & Andrews, T.J. (2016). Category-selective patterns of neural response in the ventral visual pathway in the absence of categorical information. Neuroimage, 135: 107-114, [DOI].
  50. Baldwin, A.S., Baker, D.H. & Hess, R.F. (2016). What do contrast threshold equivalent noise studies actually measure? Noise vs. nonlinearity in different masking paradigms. PLoS ONE, 11(3): e0150942, [DOI].
  51. Brattan, V.C., Baker, D.H. & Tipper, S.P. (2015). Spatiotemporal judgments of observed actions: contrasts between first- and third-person perspectives after motor priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 41(5): 1236-1246, [DOI].
  52. Baker, D.H., Karapanagiotidis, T., Coggan, D.D., Wailes-Newson, K. & Smallwood, J. (2015). Brain networks underlying bistable perception. Neuroimage, 119: 229-234, [DOI].
  53. Zhou, J., Baker, D.H., Simard, M., Saint-Amour, D. & Hess, R.F. (2015). Short-term monocular patching boosts the patched eye’s response in visual cortex. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 33(3): 381-387, [DOI].
  54. Vilidaitė, G. & Baker, D.H. (2015). Unbiased measures of interocular transfer of motion adaptation. Perception, 44(5): 541-555, [DOI].
  55. Manning, C. & Baker, D.H. (2015). Response to Davis and Plaisted-Grant: Psychophysical data do not support the low noise account of autism. Autism, 19(3): 365-366, [DOI].
  56. Baker, D.H., Simard, M., Saint-Amour, D. & Hess, R.F. (2015). Steady-state contrast response functions provide a sensitive and objective index of amblyopic deficits. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 56: 1208-1216, [DOI].
  57. Summers, R.J., Baker, D.H. & Meese, T.S. (2015). Area summation of first- and second-order modulations of luminance. Journal of Vision, 15(1):12, 1-13, [DOI].
  58. Johnston, P., Baker, D.H., Stone, R. & Kaufman, J. (2014). Thatcher’s Britain: a new take on an old illusion. Perception, 43(12): 1400-1403, [DOI].
  59. Baker, D.H. & Vilidaitė, G. (2014). Broadband noise masks suppress neural responses to narrowband stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 763, [DOI].
  60. Zhou, J., McNeal, S., Babu, R.J., Baker, D.H., Bobier, W. & Hess, R.F. (2014). Time course of dichoptic masking in normals and suppression in amblyopes. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 55: 4098-4104, [DOI].
  61. Baker, D.H. & Meese, T.S. (2014). Measuring the spatial extent of texture pooling using reverse correlation. Vision Research, 97: 52-58, [DOI].
  62. Hess, R.F., Thompson, B. & Baker, D.H. (2014). Binocular vision in amblyopia: structure, suppression and plasticity. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 34: 146-162 [DOI].
  63. Baker, D.H. & Cass, J.R. (2013). A dissociation of performance and awareness during binocular rivalry. Psychological Science, 24(12): 2563-2568, [DOI].
  64. Baker, D.H. & Meese, T.S. (2013). Regarding the benefit of zero-dimensional noise. Journal of Vision, 13(10): 26, 1-6, [DOI].
  65. Baker, D.H. (2013). What is the primary cause of individual differences in contrast sensitivity? PLoS ONE, 8(7): e69536, [DOI].
  66. Brascamp, J.W. & Baker, D.H. (2013). Psychophysics of binocular rivalry. In Miller, S.M. (ed.) The constitution of visual consciousness: lessons from binocular rivalry, 109-140. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. [Book] [Amazon]
  67. Patryas, L., Parry, N.R.A., Carden, D., Baker, D.H., Kelly, J.M.F., Aslam, T. & Murray, I.J. (2013). Assessment of age changes and repeatability for computer-based rod dark adaptation. Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 251(7): 1821-1827, [DOI].
  68. Baker, D.H., Meese, T.S. & Georgeson, M.A. (2013). Paradoxical psychometric functions (“swan functions”) are explained by dilution masking in four stimulus dimensions. i-Perception, 4(1): 17-35, [DOI].
  69. Meese, T.S. & Baker, D.H. (2013). A common rule for integration and suppression of luminance contrast across eyes, space, time, and pattern. i-Perception, 4(1): 1-16, [DOI].
  70. Wallis, S.A., Baker, D.H., Meese, T.S. & Georgeson, M.A. (2013). The slope of the psychometric function and non-stationarity of thresholds in spatiotemporal contrast vision. Vision Research, 76: 1-10, [DOI].
  71. Huang, P.C., Baker, D.H. & Hess, R.F. (2012). Interocular suppression in normal and amblyopic vision: spatio-temporal properties. Journal of Vision, 12(11): 29, 1-12, [DOI].
  72. Baldwin, A.S., Meese, T.S. & Baker, D.H. (2012). The attenuation surface for contrast sensitivity has the form of a witch’s hat within the central visual field. Journal of Vision,12(11): 23, 1-17, [DOI].
  73. Baker, D.H. & Meese, T.S. (2012) Zero-dimensional noise: The best mask you never saw. Journal of Vision, 12(10): 20, 1-12, [DOI].
  74. Baker, D.H. & Meese, T.S. (2012) Interocular transfer of spatial adaptation is weak at low spatial frequencies. Vision Research, 63: 81-87, [DOI].
  75. Baker, D.H., Wallis, S.A., Georgeson, M.A. & Meese, T.S. (2012) The effect of interocular phase difference on perceived contrast. PLoS ONE, 7(4): e34696, [DOI].
  76. Baker, D.H., Wallis, S.A., Georgeson, M.A. & Meese, T.S. (2012) Nonlinearities in the binocular combination of luminance and contrast. Vision Research, 56(1): 1-9, [DOI].
  77. Baker, D.H. & Meese, T.S. (2011) Contrast integration over area is extensive: a three stage model of spatial summation. Journal of Vision, 11(14), 14, 1-16, [DOI].
  78. Meese, T.S. & Baker, D.H. (2011) A re-evaluation of achromatic spatiotemporal mechanisms: evidence for non-oriented monocular filters that are adaptable at high flicker speeds. i-Perception, 2(2): 159-182, [DOI].
  79. Meese, T.S. & Baker, D.H. (2011) Contrast summation across eyes and space is revealed along the entire dipper function by a “Swiss cheese” stimulus. Journal of Vision, 11(1): 23, 1-23, [DOI].
  80. Baker, D.H. (2010) Visual consciousness: the binocular rivalry explosion. Current Biology, 20(15): R644-R646, [DOI].
  81. Baker, D.H. & Graf, E.W. (2010) Extrinsic factors in the perception of bistable motion stimuli. Vision Research, 50(13): 1257-1265, [DOI].
  82. Baker, D.H. & Graf, E.W. (2010) Contextual effects in speed perception may occur at an early stage of processing. Vision Research, 50(2): 193-201, [DOI].
  83. Meese, T.S., Challinor, K.L., Summers, R.J. & Baker, D.H. (2009) Suppression pathways saturate with contrast for parallel surrounds but not superimposed cross-oriented masks. Vision Research, 49(24): 2927-2935, [DOI].
  84. Meese, T.S. & Baker, D.H. (2009) Cross-orientation masking is speed invariant between ocular pathways but speed dependent within them. Journal of Vision, 9(5): 2, 1-15, [DOI].
  85. Baker, D.H. & Graf, E.W. (2009) Natural images dominate in binocular rivalry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(13): 5436-5441, [DOI].
  86. Baker, D.H. & Graf, E.W. (2009) On the relation between dichoptic masking and binocular rivalry. Vision Research, 49(4): 451-459, [DOI].
  87. Baker, D.H., Meese, T.S. & Hess, R.F. (2008) Contrast masking in strabismic amblyopia: attenuation, noise, interocular suppression and binocular summation. Vision Research, 48(15): 1625-1640, [DOI].
  88. Baker, D.H. & Graf, E.W. (2008) Equivalence of physical and perceived speed in binocular rivalry. Journal of Vision, 8(4): 26, 1-12, [DOI].
  89. Hess, R.F., Baker, D.H., May, K.A. & Wang, J. (2008) On the decline of 1st and 2nd order sensitivity with eccentricity. Journal of Vision, 8(1): 19, 1-12, [DOI].
  90. Baker, D.H., Meese, T.S., Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2007) Binocular summation of contrast remains intact in strabismic amblyopia. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 48(11): 5332-5338, [DOI].
  91. Baker, D.H. & Meese, T.S. (2007) Binocular contrast interactions: Dichoptic masking is not a single process. Vision Research, 47(24): 3096-3107, [DOI].
  92. Baker, D.H., Meese, T.S. & Georgeson, M.A. (2007) Binocular interaction: contrast matching and contrast discrimination are predicted by the same model. Spatial Vision, 20(5): 397-413, [DOI].
  93. Baker, D.H., Meese, T.S. & Summers, R.J. (2007) Psychophysical evidence for two routes to suppression before binocular summation of signals in human vision. Neuroscience, 146(1): 435-448, [DOI].
  94. Meese, T.S., Georgeson, M.A. & Baker, D.H. (2006) Binocular contrast vision at and above threshold. Journal of Vision, 6(11): 1224-1243, [DOI].

PhD Thesis

  • Baker, D.H. (2008). Interocular suppression and contrast gain control in human vision. PhD thesis, Aston University, [AURA] [EPRINTS] [ETHOS].

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