• Question: What important things have you found out so far?

    Asked by to Michael, Nancy, Emma, Elaine, Andrew on 18 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Michael Kelly

      Michael Kelly answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      I’ve found out that the rate at which the pigments in the eye recover is independent of whereabouts in the eye we measure it. This has led to a new test where two locations are tested at the same time, if there is any difference between them we know that there is a problem. This is very new and is still being investigated.

      When I first started this work four years ago it took two weeks for the calculations to be completed by my desktop computer. Now I have written a computer program that completes the calculations in less than a second.

    • Photo: Nancy Carlisle

      Nancy Carlisle answered on 24 Jun 2014:

      Because there are usually so many objects in our visual field at once, we need attention to ensure that our visual system doesn’t get overloaded in trying to process all the objects at once. I have found out that the way that objects compete for attention is based on the goals that we have, not just the neural activations that are present! 🙂

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