Samuel Smithers

Samuel Smithers

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Expertise:

  • Vision And Perception, Sensory Ecology, Polarization Vision, Strabismus Amblyopia

About Samuel Smithers

I joined the Bex Lab in summer 2020. My background is sensory biology with my main research interest is visual perceptual. I use various interdisciplinary approaches to study vision in humans and animals. My current research on humans is focused on visual disorders such as strabismus amblyopia. I use camera eye tracking and psychophysical experiments to study the assessment and diagnoses of strabismus and how treatment of it can be improved. In addition to this I also conduct research on the factors affecting visual crowding in humans and I am also interested in human polarization sensitivity and how this can be used to study and assess eye health.

I did my PhD within the Ecology of Vision Lab at the University of Bristol, UK, under the supervision of Prof Nicholas Roberts and Dr Martin How. For my PhD I used psychophysics to study polarizaton vision in animals. Before my PhD I did a masters by research in sensory biology within Prof Martin Stevens’s Sensory Ecology and Evolution research group at the University of Exeter, UK.

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