Editorial overview: The growing research networks of the physiology of vision
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Andrew Parker graduated in Natural Sciences in 1976 and obtained a doctorate in 1980, from the University of Cambridge. He transferred to Oxford, initially with Beit Memorial Fellowship, and held the Rudolph and Ann Rork Light Research Fellowship at St Catherine’s College. In 2002, he was an Invited Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute for visual art in Los Angeles. Andrew is a Professor of Neuroscience in Oxford University’s Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. He has
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Andrew Parker graduated in Natural Sciences in 1976 and obtained a doctorate in 1980, from the University of Cambridge. He transferred to Oxford, initially with Beit Memorial Fellowship, and held the Rudolph and Ann Rork Light Research Fellowship at St Catherine’s College. In 2002, he was an Invited Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute for visual art in Los Angeles. Andrew is a Professor of Neuroscience in Oxford University’s Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. He has been awarded a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (2004-2005) and a Wolfson Research Merit Award by the Royal Society. He has held a Presidential International Fellowship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and in 2017/2018 delivered the GL Brown Prize Lectures of the UK Physiological Society. Andrew Parker’s research interests cover a wide range of topics in vision, with a particular emphasis on linking neuronal activity to perceptual judgments. His group has made significant advances in the understanding of the physiology of binocular depth and its relationship with other sources of information about three-dimensional shape. This work has probed the cortical stages of binocular processing with a variety of perceptual tasks and techniques, including single-unit in vivo physiology, visual psychophysics, immersive virtual reality, functional brain imaging, human electrophysiology and computational modelling.
Kristine Krug graduated in Physiological Sciences in 1994 and obtained a DPhil for her investigation of the development of visual maps in cortex in 1998, both from Oxford University. She conducted research on the neural basis of motion and three-dimensional perception in primates during postdoctoral fellowships at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and at Oxford University. In 2001, she was awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, in 2005 a University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society to lead her own research group at Oxford. She has been an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford University since 2014. In 2019, she was awarded an Heisenberg Professorship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and moved to a chair at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. Kristine Krug’s research seeks to explain and alter perceptual decision-making from the level of single brain cells through to mental states. Combining neurophysiological measurements and direct interventions in the primate brain, her group has shown how the activity of neurons in visual cortex causally contributes to the perceptual appearance of visual objects and that context, like reward and social influence, can interact with sensory signals in the brain and affect visual perception. Her work has profound implications for our understanding of cognition in healthy individuals and in individuals with psychiatric disorders.