Profiles
Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann
Lecturer in Optometry
School of Health Professions (Faculty of Health)
Lecturer in Optometry
First Year Tutor
Admissions 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
Roles on external bodies
Elected committee member of the Applied Vision Association (AVA)
Key publications
2018 'The McGill Face Database: A Novel Database of Facial Expressions of Mental States' Open access
2018 'Radial frequency patterns describe a small and perceptually distinct subset of all possible planar shapes' Vision Research , DOI Open access
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 Open access
Teaching interests
BSc Optometry
2017–present: Visual Perception (module lead)
2017–present: Optics
2017–2018: Clinical Optometry Skills
MSc School of Health Professions
2020–present: Rehabilitation, Cognition, Perception & Behaviour ADV739 - Visual Perception
2020–present: Applied Quantitive Research Methods MCR702 - Applied nonparametric statistics, Data processing and graphical display for complex raw datasets
Research interests
Research groups
Grants & contracts
Co-applicant 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
2018 'The McGill Face Database: A Novel Database of Facial Expressions of Mental States' Open access
2018 'Radial frequency patterns describe a small and perceptually distinct subset of all possible planar shapes' Vision Research , DOI Open access
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 Open access
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020 'In the Blink of an Eye: Reading Mental States From Briefly Presented Eye Regions' i-Perception 11, (5) 204166952096111-204166952096111 , DOI Open access
2020 'The McGill Face Database: Validation and Insights Into the Recognition of Facial Expressions of Complex Mental States' Perception 49, (3) 310-329 , DOI Open access
2019 'The processing of compound radial frequency patterns' Vision Research 161, 63-74 , DOI Open access
2019 'Detection of distortions in images of natural scenes in mild traumatic brain injury patients' Vision Research 161, 12-17 , DOI Open access
2018 'Radial frequency patterns describe a small and perceptually distinct subset of all possible planar shapes' Vision Research , DOI Open access
2017 'Sensitivity to Binocular Disparity is Reduced by Mild Traumatic Brain Injury' Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science 58, (5) 2630-2630 , DOI Open access
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 Open access
2017 'Sensitivity to Binocular Disparity is Reduced by Mild Traumatic Brain Injury' Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science , DOI Open access
2016 'Rejecting probability summation for radial frequency patterns, not so Quick!' Vision Research 122, 124-134 , DOI Open access
2016 'Imagining circles – Empirical data and a perceptual model for the arc-size illusion' Vision Research 121, 50-56 , DOI Open access
2015 'Probability, not linear summation, mediates the detection of concentric orientation-defined textures' Journal of Vision 15, (16) 6-6 , DOI Open access
2015 'Shape recognition: convexities, concavities and things in between' Scientific Reports 5, (1) , DOI Open access
2015 'Distinct lower visual field preference for object shape' Journal of Vision 15, (5) 18-18 , DOI Open access
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 Open access
2013 'Detecting shapes in noise: tuning characteristics of global shape mechanisms' Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 7, , DOI Open access
2012 'Non-linear global pooling in the discrimination of circular and non-circular shapes' Vision Research 62, 44-56 , DOI Open access
2011 'Intraocular pressure fluctuations in professional brass and woodwind musicians during common playing conditions' Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 249, (6) 895-901 , DOI Open access
Books
Conference Papers
2018 'The McGill Face Database: A Novel Database of Facial Expressions of Mental States' Open access
2016 'Reading the Mind in the Blink of an Eye - A novel database for facial expressions' 238-239 Open access
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
Conferences organised
- Applied Vision Association (AVA) Christmas Meeting 2020
- Applied Vision Association (AVA) Spring Meeting 2021
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