Summary

My research focuses on understanding how our visual system provide us with information about the world that we can use to recognize and interact with objects, environments and people. I am interested in visual perception from the most basic level (e.g. how we discriminate between different shapes) to the most complex (e.g., face and object recognition). To provide this understanding I use techniques such as eye-tracking —which allows tracking where participants are looking—, EEG-ERP —to measure participants’ brain activity while viewing certain stimuli, such as faces and other objects—, and classical behavioral and psychophysical paradigms. 

Research Interests

• Face perception and recognition
• Object perception and recognition
• Shape perception
• Mathematical cognition 

Current projects

• Other race effect in Malaysian population: Malaysia is a country with a multi-ethnic background. In our lab, we are exploring whether this multi-ethnic exposure affects the ability of people to recognize faces of different ethnicities.
• Effect of quantitative eye movements on face processing task: How many times do we have to look at a face to extract different information, such as gender, familiarity and emotional status?
• Self-face recognition: how do we know that one particular face is our own? Do we process our own face qualitatively and quantitatively differently to other faces?
• Featural and holistic processing in face processing: What is the relationship between these processes and face processing tasks?
• Face and object expertise: does visual experience with an object shape the way we process that object?
• Mathematical cognition: what are the cognitive mechanisms involved in solving arithmetic problems?
• Shape perception: how do we distinguish objects purely by virtue of their shape properties?