Profiles
Dr Zahra Hussain
Lecturer in Psychology
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)
Biography
Biography
2022-present: Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, UK
2016-2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
2009-2015: Postdoctoral fellow, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
2009: PhD, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2000-2001: BA continuing, University of Toronto, Canada
2009-2015: Postdoctoral fellow, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
2009: PhD, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2000-2001: BA continuing, University of Toronto, Canada
1998: BA (Psychology), Sophia College, Mumbai University, India
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
Perception, signal detection theory, statistics
Research
Research
Research interests
I study human visual perception, with particular interests in perceptual learning, visual system plasticity, visual expertise and abnormal visual development.
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2022) 'Disruption of Positional Encoding at Small Separations in the Amblyopic Periphery' Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science 63, (4) , DOI Open access
(2020) 'An expert advantage in detecting unfamiliar visual signals in noise' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, (41) 25935-25941 , DOI Open access
(2020) 'Perceptual learning of detection of textures in noise' Journal of Vision 20, (7) 22-22 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Position matching between the visual fields in strabismus' Journal of Vision 18, (1) 9-9 , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Estimation of cortical magnification from positional error in normally sighted and amblyopic subjects' Journal of Vision 15, (2) 25-25 , DOI
(2014) 'The challenges of developing a contrast-based video game for treatment of amblyopia' Frontiers in Psychology 5, , DOI
(2012) 'The Representation of Audiovisual Regularities in the Human Brain' Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 25, (3) 365-373 , DOI
(2012) 'Versatile perceptual learning of textures after variable exposures' Vision Research 61, 89-94 , DOI
(2012) 'Perceptual Learning Reduces Crowding in Amblyopia and in the Normal Periphery' The Journal of Neuroscience 32, (2) 474-480 , DOI
(2012) 'The Rapid Emergence of Stimulus Specific Perceptual Learning' Frontiers in Psychology 3, , DOI
(2011) 'Superior Identification of Familiar Visual Patterns a Year After Learning' Psychological Science 22, (6) 724-730 , DOI
(2010) 'Task-specific perceptual learning of texture identification' Journal of Vision 10, (7) 1148-1148 , DOI
(2010) 'How much practice is needed to produce perceptual learning?' Journal of Vision 3, (9) 256-256 , DOI
(2009) 'How much practice is needed to produce perceptual learning?' Vision Research 49, (21) 2624-2634 , DOI
(2009) 'Perceptual learning modifies inversion effects for faces and textures' Vision Research 49, (18) 2273-2284 , DOI
(2008) 'Robust perceptual learning of faces in the absence of sleep' Vision Research 48, (28) 2785-2792 , DOI
(2003) 'A Treatment Program for Individuals With Deficient Evaluative Processing and Consequent Impaired Social and Risk Judgement' Neurocase 9, (1) 51-62 , DOI
(2003) 'Adult age differences in episodic memory: Further support for an associative-deficit hypothesis' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 29, (5) 826-837 , DOI