How do we use visual sense to guide behaviour?
Humans are highly visually driven animals. How people perceive the visual world around them and how they use their visual sense to guide behaviour will be explored, thanks to a £390,000 grant from the Wellcome Trust. A team of researchers at Bristol University’s Bristol Vision Institute (BVI) has been awarded the grant to establish a joint research facility. One of the main research aims of BVI is to study how motor behaviour such as, locomotion and eye-hand co-ordination, is controlled by visual information. Achieving a level of realism and control in such research requires extensive facilities for real-time visual stimulus and behavioural measurements. Dr Casimir Ludwig, the project’s principal investigator, said: “Our aim is to create a state-of-the-art facility in which we can put humans in an artificial visual “world” and measure consequent motor behaviour in real-time. This is an essential step for vision science.” The new facility will include a 12-camera motion capture system f
