Robert F.
Hess
Professor
Royal Victoria Hospital
Vision Research Centre
514-842-1231, ext 1690
robert.hess at staff.mcgill.ca
http://www.mvr.mcgill.ca/Robert/rhess_home.html
Research Areas
Behavioral Neuroscience,
Cognitive-language-perception
Research Summary
Dr. Hess, who is based at the McGill Vision Research Center, Royal Victoria
Hospital, uses psychophysical methods to study the basic mechanisms underlying
human perceptions. He is particularly interested in understanding how the
spatial, temporal and motion aspects of the image are analyzed in visual
cortex. His clinical interest concerns a condition called amblyopia,
or lazy eye, in which, for an unknown reason, the retinal image is not
properly represented in the visual areas of the brain.
Selected References
Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2002). Rules for combining the outputs
of local motion detectors to define simple contours. Vision Research,
42, 653-659.
Hess, R.F., Liu, H.C. & Wang, Y-Z (2002). Luminance spatial scale
and local stereo-sensitivity. Vision Research, 42, 331-342.
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