Dr Justin Ales

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463043

Email

jma23@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

My research encompasses three topics: neuroimaging, vision, and computation. I develop advances for neuroimaging that combine both electroencephalographic (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). I utilize these neuroimaging techniques to study the computational mechanisms that visual cortex utilizes for information processing. I am especially interested in how the brain modulates its information processing to optimally respond to variations in the environment caused by both changes in stimulus properties and by changes to behavioral goals. My research interests also include studying the impact of neurological dysfunction on visual processing (e.g. epilepsy). 

Selected publications

• Neural responses to apparent motion can be predicted by responses to non-moving stimuli

  Poncet, M. & Ales, J. M., 25 May 2020, In : NeuroImage. In press

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• Speed change discrimination for motion in depth using constant world and retinal speeds

  Lee, A. R. I., Ales, J. M. & Harris, J. M., 3 Apr 2019, In : PLoS ONE. 14, 4, 21 p., e0214766.

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• Being BOLD: the neural dynamics of face perception

  Gentile, F., Ales, J. & Rossion, B., Jan 2017, In : Human Brain Mapping. 38, 1, p. 120-139 20 p.

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• Sparse EEG/MEG source estimation via a group lasso

  Lim, M., Ales, J. M., Cottereau, B. R., Hastie, T. & Norcia, A. M., 12 Jun 2017, In : PLoS One. 12, 6, 29 p., e0176835.

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• How to use fMRI functional localizers to improve EEG/MEG source estimation

  Cottereau, B. R., Ales, J. M. & Norcia, A. M., 30 Jul 2015, In : Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 250, p. 64-73 10 p.

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• Separable effects of inversion and contrast-reversal on face detection thresholds and response functions: a sweep VEP study

  Liu-Shuang, J., Ales, J., Rossion, B. & Norcia, A. M., 10 Feb 2015, In : Journal of Vision. 15, 2, 11.

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• The effect of contrast polarity reversal on face detection: evidence of perceptual asymmetry from sweep VEP

  Liu-Shuang, J., Ales, J. M., Rossion, B. & Norcia, A. M., Mar 2015, In : Vision Research. 108, p. 8-19 12 p.

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• The steady-state visual evoked potential in vision research: a review

  Norcia, A., Appelbaum, L. G., Ales, J. M., Cottereau, B. & Rossion, B., May 2015, In : Journal of Vision. 15, 6, 4.

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• Flies and humans share a motion estimation strategy that exploits natural scene statistics

  Clark, D. A., Fitzgerald, J. E., Ales, J. M., Gohl, D. M., Silies, M. A., Norcia, A. M. & Clandinin, T. R., Feb 2014, In : Nature Neuroscience. 17, 2, p. 296-303 8 p.

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• The evolution of a disparity decision in human visual cortex

  Cottereau, B. R., Ales, J. M. & Norcia, A. M., 15 May 2014, In : NeuroImage. 92, p. 193-206 14 p.

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