Professor Andrew T. Smith Department of Psychology Royal Holloway, University of London Egham Surrey TW20 OEX ENGLAND a.t.smith@rhul.ac.uk 01784 443717

Role:
I am a research professor in visual neuroscience and the Director of MRI at Royal Holloway.

Summary of research interests:
The sense systems, particularly vision. Use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques to elucidate visual processes in the human brain. Psychophysical studies of the early stages visual processing, particularly the detection of image motion.

Outline of current research projects:
My current research focuses on fMRI brain imaging techniques, which we use to obtain detailed information concerning the regions of the human brain that are involved in various aspects of vision. The participants are healthy human volunteers. We use a research-dedicated 3T MRI system (Siemens Trio). Details of this shared research facility can be found on the CUBIC website. My current research includes the following projects:

The processing of optic flow
Neural basis of visual attention
Visual activity in the pulvinar nucleus

Research group:
Projects within the above areas are currently funded by grants from the Wellcome Trust and the EC. Two postdoctoral scientists work with me: Dr Matthew Wall and Dr Velia Cardin. My former postdocs include Prof Krish Singh, Dr Nick Scott-Samuel, Dr William Curran, Dr Adrian Williams and Dr Angelika Lingnau. My former PhD students include Prof Tim Ledgeway, Dr Steve Hammett and Dr Pete Bex.

Publications:
Full list here with pdf files where these are available.

RAE vs. metrics :
Back by request: our 2002 study showing that RAE panels and citation-based approaches to assessment give very similar results. Full text (pdf file).