Ian O’Sullivan
PhD Student
Supervisor: Quoc Vuong
- Email: i.osullivan@newcastle.ac.uk
- Website: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/q.c.vuong/
Introduction and area of work:
I studied cognitive science; understanding thinking as a process. Then I spent a short while looking at motor control; the output side of a thinking system. Now I work in vision; the input side. I want to know how a bunch of neurons can get together and think.
My exceedingly complex brain allows me to recognise many things easily, but even a bee with a tiny brain can process visual input well enough to forage. As similar visual abilities exist in many species, what common mechanisms might they share? I simulate different possible networks of neurons to find a model of general (across-species) visual processing.
Qualifications:
- BSc, Cognitive Science
- MSc, Psychological Research
Techniques:
Computational network modelling.
