Profiles
Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann
Lecturer in Optometry
School of Health Professions (Faculty of Health)
Lecturer in Optometry
First Year Tutor
Member of the university senate
Qualifications
2019: Fellow of the higher education association (FHEA)
2016 - 2017: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Canada)
2013 - 2016: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Canada)
2008 - 2013: PhD Vision Science (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
2005 - 2008: BSc Optometry (University of Applied Sciences, Lübeck, Germany)Professional membership
Applied Vision Society (AVA)
Roles on external bodies
Co-opted member of the Applied Vision Association (AVA)
Teaching interests
2017-present: Visual Perception (module lead)
2017-present: Optics
2017-2018: Clinical Optometry Skills
Research interests
Grants & contracts
Co-grantholder with Ian Gold (PI) and Elevate Solomonova on SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada) Insight Grant #435-2017-1215 (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 'The McGill Face Database: Validation and Insights Into the Recognition of Facial Expressions of Complex Mental States' Perception 49, (3) 310-329 , DOI PEARL
2019 'Detection of distortions in images of natural scenes in mild traumatic brain injury patients' Vision Research 161, 12-17 , DOI PEARL
2018 'Radial frequency patterns describe a small and perceptually distinct subset of all possible planar shapes' Vision Research , DOI PEARL
2017 'Sensitivity to Binocular Disparity is Reduced by Mild Traumatic Brain Injury' Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science 58, (5) 2630-2630 , DOI PEARL
2017 'Nothing more than a pair of curvatures: A common mechanism for the detection of both radial and non-radial frequency patterns' Vision Research 134, 18-25 , DOI PEARL
2017 'Sensitivity to Binocular Disparity is Reduced by Mild Traumatic Brain Injury' Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science , DOI PEARL
2016 'Rejecting probability summation for radial frequency patterns, not so Quick!' Vision Research 122, 124-134 , DOI PEARL
2016 'Imagining circles – Empirical data and a perceptual model for the arc-size illusion' Vision Research 121, 50-56 , DOI PEARL
2015 'Probability, not linear summation, mediates the detection of concentric orientation-defined textures' Journal of Vision 15, (16) 6-6 , DOI PEARL
2015 'Shape recognition: convexities, concavities and things in between' Scientific Reports 5, (1) , DOI PEARL
2015 'Distinct lower visual field preference for object shape' Journal of Vision 15, (5) 18-18 , DOI PEARL
2015 'Modeling probability and additive summation for detection across multiple mechanisms under the assumptions of signal detection theory' Journal of Vision 15, (5) 1-1 , DOI PEARL
2013 'Detecting shapes in noise: tuning characteristics of global shape mechanisms' Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 7, , DOI PEARL
Books
Conference Papers
2015 'Imagining Circles: A perceptual model for the Arc-Size Illusion' 248-248
2015 'Shape recognition: The predominate role of convexities' 459-459
2014 'Imagining circles' 1127-1127
2012 'Inferior superiority: shape discrimination is better in the lower compared to the upper visual field' 217-218
2011 'Local curvature detectors and global shape processing' 118-118
2011 'Sampling shape space: discrimination of morphed radial frequency patterns' 209-209
2010 'Nonlinear global summation in the perception of non-circular contours' 270-270
2009 'Global pooling in shape perception' 75-75
Posters
Other academic activities
Reviewer for the following journals:
- Journal of Vision
- Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences (IOVS)
- Vision Research
- Experimental Psychology
- Perception
- I-Perception
- Psychophysiology
- Psychological Research