Every day we travel at speeds that exceed those that we evolved to control.  My research investigates which visual and non-visual information sources can be used to achieve safe and accurate locomotion, and the manner in which the information is used.   

Selected Publications:

Wilkie R.M. & Wann J.P. (In Press) The Role of visual and non-visual information in the control of locomotion. JEP:HPP

Wilkie R.M. & Wann J.P. (2003) Eye-movements aid the control of locomotion. J.Vision, (11), 677-684

Wilkie R.M. & Wann J.P. (2003) Controlling Steering and Judging Heading: Retinal flow, visual direction and extra-retinal information. JEP:HPP, 29 (2), 363 - 378

Wilkie R.M. & Wann J.P. (2002) Driving as night falls: The contribution of retinal flow and visual direction to the control of steering. Curr Biol, 12 (23), 2014-2017 

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Research Themes

	Optic Flow		Steering Control
	Eye Movements		Path Perception
	Abstracts		Full Publications Page
	Presentations		Curriculum Vitae

My thesis explored how we use optic flow (the movement of objects and surfaces around you) for navigating around the world, and the role that eye-movements and a visual reference play in steering an accurate course.  An online presentation (first presented at Vision Sciences Society) questions our ability to discern heading, and asks whether active steering is based on a perception of path.

I am currently working in a postdoctoral position at Reading University supported by the EPSRC on our grant Active Gaze and Control of Locomotion (GR/S86358/01).