Professor Nick Scott-Samuel
B.A.(Bristol), MSc, Ph.D.(Birm.)
Current positions
Professor of Experimental Psychology
School of Psychological Science
Contact
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Research interests
My research was initially concerned with the visual perception of motion by humans, but I’ve become sidetracked over time by various other things, including the perception of food and drink, camouflage, visual search and the estimation of numerosity.
For more on my camouflage research, please go to www.camolab.com
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8103 Motion illusions for defence
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/12/2020 to 30/11/2023
Creating a Personalised Museum Experience with Deep Learning
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Individual preferences for Art, like beauty, are thought to be in the eye of the beholder. But can science find away to identify what we really appreciate in paintings? Delving…Managing organisational unit
Dates
17/06/2019 to 31/01/2020
Concealing 3D objects
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
08/06/2019 to 31/12/2022
The Camouflage machine: optimising patterns for camouflage and visibility
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/06/2015 to 31/05/2018
CORTICAL ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH LEVEL VISUAL MOTION PROCESSING IN HUMANS
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/07/2005 to 01/08/2005
Thesis supervisions
Camouflage in a dynamic world
Supervisors
Overcoming the predation costs of bilaterally symmetrical colouration
Supervisors
Do coloured filters benefit reading beyond placebo?
Supervisors
How background complexity impairs target detection and can mitigate poor camouflage.
Supervisors
An extended investigation into predictors of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) in individuals who were parentally bereaved as adolescents or young adults
Supervisors
Does the geometry of perceptual colour space reflect the colours in our environment?
Supervisors
Countershading in Seabirds
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2023Camouflage, and its relationship with plausibility
A Sense of Plausibility in Vision and Music Perception
Dazzle: surface patterns that impede interception
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage
Behavioral Ecology
Beetle iridescence induces an avoidance response in naïve avian predators
Animal Behaviour
Background complexity can mitigate poor camouflage
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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