Dr Paul Warren Ph.D.
Lecturer in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
- Email: paul.warren@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 2757699
Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies
- Applied Vision Association
- Vision Sciences Society
Research
Perception
Contour and shape; motion processing; optic flow; binocular vision; sensory integration; Bayesian vision; shape from texture; eye movements; extra-ocular mechanics and control
General
Mathematical modelling approaches for Psychology and Neuroscience; Models of human performance and behaviour; Human perception of randomness; Decision making
Methodological Knowledge
- Visual Psychophysics
- Computational Modelling
Teaching
- PSYC 10101: Statistics and Research Methods
- PSYC 30920: Final Year Project
- MSc in Cognitive Brain Imaging
PhD Supervision
- Andreas Jarvstad (Cardiff Univerisity, School of Psychology)
- Cassandra Rogers (Cardiff Univertsity, School of Psychology)
Biography
Education
- B.Sc. (Hons) June 1995. Pure, Applied and Computational Mathematics. University of Sheffield. U.K.
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Ph.D., May 2000. Thesis: Mathematical Models of 3-D Ocular Mechanics and Control
Artificial Intelligence and Vision Research Unit (AIVRU), Dept. of Psychology, University of Sheffield., U.K.
Employment
- Nov 1999 – Nov 2001: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Psychology and Center for Neural Science New York University. U.S.A.
- Jun 2002 – July 2003: Post-doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Psychology, Glasgow University. U.K.
- Aug 2003 – Aug 2004: Post-doctoral Research Associate, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, U.K.
- Sept 2004 – Feb 2007: Senior Consultant, Centre for human Sciences, QinetiQ Ltd.
- Feb 2007– July 2009: Research Fellow of the Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience(WICN), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, U.K.
Collaborators and affiliated staff
- Dr. Rebecca Champion, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, U.K.
- Dr. Tom Freeman, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, U.K.
- Dr. Eric Graf, Dept. of Psychology, University of Southampton, U.K.
- Prof. Ulrike Hahn, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, U.K.
- Prof. Laurence Maloney, Dept. of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University, U.S.A.
- Dr. Pascal Mamassian, Université Paris Descartes, France
- Dr. Simon Rushton, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, U.K.
Selected publications
2012
- Jarvstad, A., Rushton, S. K., Hahn, U. & Warren, P. A. (In-press). Knowing When to Move On: Cognitive and Perceptual Decisions in Time. Psychological Science, eScholarID:131106
- Warren, P. A., Graf, E. W., Maloney, L. T. & Champion, R. (In-press). Visual extrapolation under risk: Humans estimate and compensate for exogenous uncertainty. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, eScholarID:148066
2010
- Freeman, T. C. A., Champion, R. A. & Warren, P. A. (2010). A Bayesian model of perceived head-centred velocity during smooth pursuit eye movement. Current Biology, 20, 757-762. eScholarID:79767 | DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2010.02.059
- Hahn, U. & Warren, P. A. (In-press). Why three heads are a better bet than four: A Reply to Sun, Tweney and Wang (2009). Psychological Review, (in press), eScholarID:76406
- Warren, P. A. & Mamassian, P. (2010). Recovery of surface pose from texture orientation statistics under perspective projection. Biological Cybernetics, 103, 199. eScholarID:79768 | DOI:10.1007/s00422-010-0389-3
2009
- Hahn, U. & Warren P. A. (2009). Perceptions of randomness: why three heads are better than four. Psychological Review, 116(2), 454-461. eScholarID:76402 | DOI:10.1037/a0015241
- Warren, P. A. & Rushton, S. K. (2009). Optic flow processing for the assessment of object movement during ego movement. Current Biology, 19(18), 1555-1560. eScholarID:76405 | DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.057
- Warren, P. A. & Rushton, S. K. (2009). Perception of scene-relative object movement: Optic flow parsing and the contribution of monocular depth cues. Vision Research, 49(11), 1406-1419. eScholarID:76403 | DOI:10.1016/j.visres.2009.01.016