Adam Kane
Room 110, Hughes Building Fax +61 (08) 8303 3770 adam.kane@adelaide.edu.au |
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Area of Research
Segregation of information into chromatic and luminance pathways
Visual control of simple motor responses and reaching correction
Visual motion information processing
Memberships
Australian Neuroscience Society
Brain and Cognition Research Unit
Awards
Fac of Health Sci. Postgraduate Travel Fund 2010
School of Psychology, Postgraduate Travel Fund 2010
Computational Neuroscience Research Cluster Student poster prize 2010
School of Psychology, Postgraduate Travel Fund 2011
Psychology Research Interests
My interest is primarily in understanding human perceptions and behaviour in terms of the structure and function of the early visual brain. In particular, I enjoy trying to separate the contributions of the evolutionarily distinct chromatic and luminance pathways to contemporary human function in terms of how they facilitate different processes such as perception, reaching guidance, eye movements and simple decision making. I use psychophysical methods to attempt to effectively isolate these pathways and try to equate the neural responses for these pathways to allow useful comparisons. I also have an interest in how visual motion detection systems adapt over time and how eye movements effect higher level processing such as face processing
Publications
Kane, A.J., Wade, A. & Ma-Wyatt, A. (2011). Delays in using chromatic and luminance information to correct rapid reaches. Journal of Vision. 11 (10) 3, 1-18
Research Posters
Adam Kane, Alex Wade and Anna Ma-Wyatt. Delays in reaction time & correcting reaches to chromatic targets. Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) Auckland, New Zealand, 2011.

