DakinLab

UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

Recent papers

Crowding isn’t attention

Crowding changes appearance

Contour motion

What we do

Because neurons in the retina respond to small parts of images, the eye delivers the brain a fragmented world-view. The research in my lab focuses on integration: how the brain turns a patchwork of local neural activity into a coherent global percept.

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News

The picture on the right is a sample from a larger image that was a runner-up in the 2009 UCL Research Images as Art competition. The gallery is here and we used the image in a recent press release here