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Oliver Braddick PhD, FMedSci

Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Visual Development Unit
Visual Processes: local and global processing in motion, pattern, and spatial vision. Visual and visuomotor development in infants and children.

Group Members

Collaborators

  • John Wattam-Bell, Visual Development Unit, UCL
  • Claes von Hofsten, University of Uppsala
  • Joan Stiles, University of California San Diego
  • Andrew Wilkinson, Paediatrics, John Radcliffe Hospital
  • David Edwards, Neonatal Paediatrics, Imperial College
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Department Department of Experimental Psychology
College Magdalen College
Oliver Braddick

5-month infant wears a high-density geodesic net for recording visual brain responses in global form and motion processing

Oliver Braddick is co-director of the Visual Development Unit which has linked programmes of research in Oxford and University College London. Current projects include:

  • Psychophysical, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging analysis of the mechanisms of global form and motion information in human vision.
  • Behavioural and high-density VERP studies of the development of pattern and motion processing in infancy
  • Kinematic measures of the development of visuomotor integrat ion
  • 'Dorsal stream vulnerabilty' as a visual signature of early neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Visual, visuomotor, and visuocognitive sequelae of premature birth

Sources of Funding

Biography

BA (1965) and PhD (1968) in Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.  1968-9 Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Lorrin Riggs, Brown University, USA.  1969 returned to Cambridge as University Demonstrator, Lecture and then Reader.  In 1976, established in Cambridge the Visual Development Unit jointly with Janette Atkinson and with MRC support.   The Unit carried out pioneering research on the development of visual cortical function in infancy and on early vision screening, and in parallel worked on visual motion, pattern, and binocular processing in adults.  In 1993, moved together with Janette Atkinson to University College London as Professors of Psychology, where in 1998 he became Head of the Psychology Department. Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2001, and in the same year appointed Professor of Experimental Psychology and Head of Department at Oxford.  He also holds visiting appointments at University College London and the University of California San Diego.

Selected Publications

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