
Dr Nick Martin
BSc, PhD
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Education
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Research interests
My research interests are in how visual information is processed. I have published several papers on how written words, objects and faces are recognised and represented in the brain and in artificial neural networks (i.e., AI). More recently, I was involved in a project investigating how self-motion (e.g., walking or driving) impacts target detection in early visual pathways. My current research with Dr Philippa Howard at the University of Bristol uses eye-tracking to investigate whether there are differences in inferential processing between autistic and non-autistic adults during reading.
Publications
Recent publications
01/11/2020Are there any ‘object detectors’ in the hidden layers of CNNs trained to identify objects or scenes?
Vision Research
Selectivity metrics provide misleading estimates of the selectivity of single units in neural networks
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society
Evidence from masked-priming that initial identification of brand names is via abstract letter identities
British Journal of Psychology
Researchers Keep Rejecting Grandmother Cells after Running the Wrong Experiments
BioEssays
Thesis
Selectivity in Neural Networks
Supervisors
Award date
24/06/2021