Dr Anna Ma-Wyatt

Room 522, Hughes Building Phone +61 (08) 8303 5660 Fax +61 (08) 8303 3770 anna.mawyatt@adelaide.edu.au

Level 3 Course Coordinator

Area of Research

 Visual perception, eye movements, hand movements.

Senior Appointments and Memberships

Australian Psychological Society

Vision Sciences Society

Member of Brain and Cognition Group

Awards

Rachel C. Atkinson Fellow (2003-2006), held at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, USA

Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis of Exceptional Merit (2001)

Psychology Research Interests

Everyday, we navigate visually complex environments and make hand and eye movements. I am interested in understanding how our brains process visual information to enable us to do these things. How do we know where something is in space? How do we use visual information to guide our eyes and hands in order to interact with our environment? I use behavioural experiments to answer these questions, conducting experiments on visual, hand and eye movement performance.

Recent Key Publications

Morrone, M. C., Ma-Wyatt, A. and Ross, J. (2005): ‘Seeing and pointing at perisaccadic targets’ Journal of Vision 5 (9), 741-754

Ma-Wyatt, A., Clifford, C. W. G., & Wenderoth, P. (2005): ‘Determinants of grouping in apparent motion’ Perception 34 (6): 669-685

Ross, J. and Ma-Wyatt, A. (2004) ‘Saccades actively maintain perceptual continuity’ Nature Neuroscience 7 (1) 65-70