What is sight? Should you trust what you see? Does the brain process visual information outside of awareness? These are the questions we seek to answer in this project. We are conducting multiple studies that are concerned with how visual information is processed both within and outside of conscious awareness, and how this information…
Do people with an ASD experience sight differently? If so, is it more objective and how is it qualitatively different? Do people with an ASD experience problems in visual orienting and other facets of attention? If so, are these difficulties to blame for problems in social communication and language? The eyes look and the brain sees. Looking is…
How is retinal information processed? How does the brain enable us to recognise objects? How does the brain guide our limbs to manually make use of objects? These are the questions we seek to answer in this project. In this endeavour, we carry out magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI is an imaging technique that…
Philippe Chouinard - Vision & Action Lab 