In my final year I specialized in Visual Cognition. I also have close ties with Prof.Philippe Schyns and DrAnnie Archambault , at the University of Glasgow . We completed a paper that had its origins in my final year dissertation. This interest in differinglevels of category decisions and its effect on visual processing has carriedover into my work here. My thesis has a preliminarytitle of Object and Face categorization.
Humans are visual beings.
We are driven, to a large extent, by the visual information before us. We interact with it on multiple levels and we are called upon to make billionsupon billions of visual decisions in the course our lifetime. There are many ways in whichwe interact with such complex information. The system that particularlyinterests me is the level of information abstraction known as the categorylevel. It is now commonly acknowledged that the human perceiver can interactwith the objects in her world at different, hierarchically organized levelsof categorization.