Professor of Psychology, University of Melbourne
Professor Philip L Smith is the director of the Vision and Attention Laboratory at the University of Melbourne.
Work in this Laboratory seeks to explain how colour, motion, and attentional mechanisms operate within the visual system. We employ a diverse range of approaches including behavioural psychophysics, computational modeling, and electrophysiology.
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