Background
I have been a Postdoctoral fellow in Richard Born's Lab in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School since late 2005. I am interested in the way single neurons and populations of neurons respond to changing stimuli; how can they faithfully code the ongoing properties of a stimulus despite neural adaptation and changes in the stimulus? Currently I am studying the perceptual sensitivity to changes in speed of an ongoing visual motion stimulus and the sensitivity of neurons in cortical area MT to these changes. From 2006-2009 I am supported by a Long Term Fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).
I did my PhD in the lab of Michael Ibbotson in the Research School of Biological Sciences at the Australian National University. My PhD thesis Processing of visual acceleration and motion during saccades: physiology and modeling of cat and monkey cortex was submitted in Sept 2005.