Dr Daniel Baker

• Email: d.h.baker1@aston.ac.uk
• Telephone: 0121 204 4246
• Room number: MB715B

Qualifications & education    

• 2000 - 2003:      BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Nottingham
  
• 2004 - 2007:      PhD in Vision Sciences, Aston University
  

Employment    

• 2009 - present: Postdoctoral research fellow, Aston University
• 2007 - 2009:      Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Southampton
  

Research interests    

• binocular vision
• spatial vision
• motion perception
• amblyopia
• dichoptic masking
• binocular rivalry
• bistable perception

Recent research funding   

Membership of professional bodies   

Selected publications    

• Baker & Graf (2010) Contextual effects in speed perception may occur at an early stage of processing. Vision Research, 50(2): 193-201, [DOI].

• 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].

• 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].

Thesis  

• Baker (2008) Interocular suppression and contrast gain control in human vision. Doctoral thesis, Aston University [pdf] [AURA].