Adam Kane

Room 110, Hughes Building Phone: +61 (08) 8303 4329 Fax +61 (08) 8303 3770 adam.kane@adelaide.edu.au

Area of Research

Segregation of information into chromatic and luminance pathways

Visual control of simple motor responses and reaching correction

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.