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Dr Roland Baddeley

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telephone: +44 (0)117 92 88541 email: Roland.Baddeley@bris.ac.uk

Room 4D2

Biographical details

My first degree was in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Sussex, and after various computer related jobs in industry, I did a PhD with Roger Watt at Stirling University on statistical models of early vision. After post-docs in Cambridge Physiology dept (with Horace Barlow), and Oxford Psychology and Physiology, I got a lectureship in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex. I moved at the end of 2003 to Bristol.


Teaching and administration




I teach on the 2nd year course advanced statistics, the third year option Computer models in Psychology, the third year option Computational Neuroscience, and the Masters level course Psychological Statistics. I am organiser of the Research Methods MSc and Masters course organiser.

Research interests

Key words: Animal Communication, Bayesian modelling, computer models in psychology, statistics of natural images, eye movements, memory and forgetting, motor learning.


Recent and current grants

Roland Baddeley £ 33,000 (1998) MRC One year case award: optimal motor adaptation to a changing world.

Daniel Osorio and Roland Baddeley (2000-2003) BBSRC £178,000 The analysis of signalling in cuttlefish.

Roland Baddeley and Daniel Osorio (1999-2002) EPSRC £168,000Illumination invariance and the natural statistics of the world

Roland Baddeley (2004-2007) £170,000 EPSRC Reverse Engineering of Vertebrate Brain, Supported by EPSRC grant EP/C516303/1


Collaborations

Collaborators include Ben Tatler, Ben Vincent, Adam Shoet, John Anderson, Tom Troscianko, Dr Casimir Ludwig.

PhD students supervised

Ben Vincent (2001-2004).

Townshend JM (1999-2002)


Some recent publications

Tatler BW, Baddeley RJ, Gilchrist ID. (2005) Visual correlates of fixation selection: effects of scale and time. Vision Res. Mar;45(5):643-59.

Anderson JC, Baddeley RJ, Osorio D, Shashar N, Tyler CW, Ramachandran VS, Crook AC, Hanlon RT. (2003) Modular organization of adaptive colouration in flounder and cuttlefish revealed by independent component analysis. Network. May;14(2):321-33.

Vincent BT, Baddeley RJ. (2003) Synaptic energy efficiency in retinal processing.
Vision Res. 2003 May;43(11):1283-90.

Spence C, Baddeley R, Zampini M, James R, Shore DI. (2003) Multisensory temporal order judgments: when two locations are better than one. Percept Psychophys. Feb;65(2):318-28.

Baddeley RJ, Ingram HA, Miall RC. (2003) System identification applied to a visuomotor task: near-optimal human performance in a noisy changing task. J Neurosci. Apr 1;23(7):3066-75.

Crook AC, Baddeley R, Osorio D. (2002) Identifying the structure in cuttlefish visual signals.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. Nov 29;357(1427):1617-24.

Jones CD, Osorio D, Baddeley RJ. (2001) Colour categorization by domestic chicks.
Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. Oct 22;268(1481):2077-84.

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