Profiles
Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann
Lecturer in Optometry
School of Health Professions (Faculty of Health)
Role
Lecturer in Optometry
First Year Tutor
Deputy Admissions Tutor
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
Vision Science Society (VSS)
Applied Vision Society (AVA)
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
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 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
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