Prof Julie Harris

Professor

Director of Research

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 462061

Email

jh81@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

The visual system is required to organise and process the vast amount of visual information that is available from the environment. The study of human visual processing allows one to ask questions such as what environmental information the visual systemis able to make use of, what it uses it for, and how well it is able to use that information. In my laboratory, psychophysical, behavioural and computational techniques are used to explore the basic processes underlying human visual perception and its links to motor action. Current research projects focus on the following areas: vision and camouflage, cue combination in depth and shape perception, colour-depth interactions, binocular stereopsis, three-dimensional motion, locomotion and eye movements in the natural environment, early spatial vision, stereo display technologies and the nature of visual representations.

PhD supervision

• Siu Chua
• Rebecca Maguire

Selected publications and performances

• Perceived duration of brief visual events is mediated by timing mechanisms at the global stages of visual processing

  Beattie, L., Curran, W., Benton, C. P., Harris, J. M. & Hibbard, P. B., 1 Mar 2017, In : Royal Society Open Science. 4, 8 p., 160928.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• A link between attentional function, effective eye movements and driving ability

  MacKenzie, A. K. & Harris, J., Feb 2017, In : Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 43, 2, p. 381-394 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Optimizing countershading camouflage

  Cuthill, I., Sanghera, N. S., Penacchio, O., Lovell, P. G., Ruxton, G. D. & Harris, J., 15 Nov 2016, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113, 46, p. 13093-13097 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Adapting to time: duration channels do not mediate human time perception

  Curran, WI., Benton, C., Harris, J., Hibbard, P. B. & Beattie, L., Mar 2016, In : Journal of Vision. 16, 5, 10 p., 4.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Depth perception in disparity-defined objects: finding the balance between averaging and segregation

  Cammack, P. P. K. & Harris, J., 19 Jun 2016, In : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. B, Biological Sciences. 371, 1697, 11 p., 20150258.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Three-dimensional camouflage: exploiting photons to conceal form

  Penacchio, O., Lovell, P. G., Cuthill, I., Ruxton, G. D. & Harris, J., Oct 2015, In : American Naturalist. 186, 4, p. 553-563

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Eye movements and hazard perception in active and passive driving

  MacKenzie, A. K. & Harris, J., 2015, In : Visual Cognition. In press

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Orientation to the sun by animals and its interaction with crypsis

  Penacchio, O., Cuthill, I., Lovell, P. G., Ruxton, G. D. & Harris, J., Sep 2015, In : Functional Ecology. 29, 9, p. 1165-1177

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Perceptual integration across natural monocular regions

  Zeiner, K. M., Spitschan, M. & Harris, J., 5 Mar 2014, In : Journal of Vision. 14, 3, 5.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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