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| Personal details | |
| Name | Miss Emma Howell |
| Job title | Research Assistant |
| Department | School of Experimental Psychology University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BSc(WEngland), MSc (Exon) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | animal camouflage computational neuroscience birds humans camouflage |
| Areas of expertise | I am currently employed as a Research Assistant in a 3 year BBSRC-funded project on the Computational Neuroscience of Animal Camouflage. The P.I.s for this interdisciplinary research are Innes Cuthill, Tom Troscianko (Experimental Psychology) and Neill Campbell (Computer Sciences). The aim of my research is to develop a computational theory of animal camouflage, with models specific to the visual systems of birds and humans. Birds, because many spectacular examples of camouflage come from insects, and so we must understand their coloration with respect to the vision of their major predators. Humans, because of the fundamental interest, from psychology and computer science, in visual search. Previous research has highlighted key differences in the visual systems of birds and humans, but search for cryptic targets against complex natural backgrounds is a task which both visual systems have surely evolved to perform efficiently. |