Qualifications & education
- 2004 - 2007: PhD in Vision Sciences, Aston University
- 2000 - 2003: BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Nottingham
Employment
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2009 - present: Postdoctoral research fellow, Aston University
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2007 - 2009: Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Southampton
Research interests
I am a member of the
Sensory and Perceptual Systems research group, within the School of Life and Health Sciences.
My main research interests are:
- binocular vision
- spatial vision
- motion perception
- amblyopia
- dichoptic masking
- binocular rivalry
- bistable perception
Recent research funding
Currently employed on an
EPSRC grant awarded to
Tim Meese and
Mark Georgeson.
Memberships
Member of the
Applied Vision Association (AVA) and the
Vision Sciences Society (VSS).
Selected publications
- Baker, Wallis, Georgeson & Meese (2012) Nonlinearities in the binocular combination of luminance and contrast. Vision Research, in press, [DOI].
- Baker & Meese (2011) Contrast integration
over area is extensive: a three stage model of spatial summation.
Journal of Vision, 11(14): 14, 1-16, [DOI] [AURA].
- Meese & Baker (2011) A reevaluation of achromatic spatio-temporal vision: nonoriented filters are monocular, they adapt, and can be used for decision making at high flicker speeds. iPerception, 2(2): 159-182, [DOI] [AURA].
- Meese & Baker (2011) Contrast summation across eyes and space is revealed along the entire dipper function by a "Swiss cheese" stimulus. Journal of Vision, 11(1): 23, 1-23, [DOI] [AURA].
- Baker (2010) Visual consciousness: the binocular rivalry explosion. Current Biology, 20(15): R644-R646, [DOI] [AURA].
- Baker & Graf (2010) Extrinsic factors in the perception of bistable motion stimuli. Vision Research, 50(13): 1257-1265, [DOI] [AURA].
- Baker & Graf (2010) Contextual effects in speed perception may occur at an early stage of processing. Vision Research, 50(2): 193-201, [DOI] [AURA].
- Meese, Challinor, Summers & Baker (2009) Suppression pathways
saturate with contrast for parallel surrounds but not superimposed
cross-oriented masks. Vision Research, 49(24): 2927-2935, [DOI] [AURA].
- Meese & Baker (2009) Cross-orientation masking is speed invariant between ocular pathways but speed dependent within them. Journal of Vision, 9(5): 2, 1-15, [DOI] [AURA].
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Baker & Graf (2009) Natural images dominate in binocular rivalry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(13): 5436-5441, [DOI] [AURA].
- Baker & Graf (2009) On the relation between dichoptic masking and binocular rivalry. Vision Research, 49(4): 451-459, [DOI] [AURA].
- Baker, Meese & Hess (2008) Contrast masking in strabismic amblyopia: attenuation, noise, interocular suppression and binocular summation. Vision Research, 48(15): 1625-1640, [DOI] [AURA].
- Baker & Graf (2008) Equivalence of physical and perceived speed in binocular rivalry. Journal of Vision, 8(4): 26, 1-12, [DOI] [AURA].
- Hess, Baker, May & Wang (2008) On the decline of 1st and 2nd order sensitivity with eccentricity. Journal of Vision, 8(1): 19, 1-12, [DOI] [AURA].
- Baker, Meese, Mansouri & Hess (2007) Binocular summation of contrast remains intact in strabismic amblyopia. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 48(11): 5332-5338, [DOI] [AURA].
- Baker & Meese (2007) Binocular contrast interactions: Dichoptic masking is not a single process. Vision Research, 47(24): 3096-3107, [DOI] [AURA].
- Baker, Meese & Georgeson (2007) Binocular interaction: contrast matching and contrast discrimination are predicted by the same model. Spatial Vision, 20(5): 397-413, [DOI] [AURA].
- Baker, Meese & Summers (2007) Psychophysical evidence for two routes to suppression before binocular summation of signals in human vision. Neuroscience, 146(1): 435-448, [DOI] [AURA].
- Meese, Georgeson & Baker (2006) Binocular contrast vision at and above threshold. Journal of Vision, 6(11): 1224-1243, [DOI] [AURA].
My
Google Scholar and
ResearcherID profiles contain citation information on the above publications.
A list of (25) published conference abstracts is located
here.
Thesis
- Baker (2008) Interocular suppression and contrast gain control in human vision. Doctoral thesis, Aston University [pdf] [AURA].
Last updated 25/01/12