Associate Professor Guy Wallis
BEng(Imperial College, London), PhD(Oxford)
- Principal Research Fellow in Motor Control
Contact details
Rm 530
Phone: (+61) 7 3365 6108
Fax: (+61) 7 3365 6877
E-mail: gwallis@hms.uq.edu.au
Personal pages: http://www.hms.uq.edu.au/vislab
Background
Guy Wallis is a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Human Movement Studies. He has a background in electronic engineering and neural networks (from the University of London) combined with a PhD in visual neuroscience from Oxford. He joined the School in 1998 after a three year period as a visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in S.W. Germany. Whilst in Germany, A/Prof. Wallis developed his interest in the human visual system by using virtual, computer generated worlds and since his arrival has established a virtual environments lab within the School. His research work and infrastructure to support it, has been funded by the Australian Research Council and the Motor Accident Insurance Commission.
A/Prof. Wallis was one of seven recipients of the 2003 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards for early career researchers. The annual awards recognise outstanding performance and leadership potential, and in 2003 formed part of the second annual UQ Research Week from September 22-26. A/Prof Wallis was an ARC funded QEII Research Fellow based in the School from 2003-2007 and is now a Principal Research Fellow part funded by the School and the Queensland Brain Institute.
Research Interests
In order to interact effectively with our environment humans must be able to represent and recognise objects. A/Prof. Wallis' research aims to bring his formal training in computer graphics, neural networks and systems engineering to the field of visual neuroscience, in an attempt to better understand how recognition takes place and representations are built. He has made extensive use of behavioural studies conducted in virtual worlds to test and inspire theories emerging from his theoretical and network simulation work. Specific interests include the perception and representation of object location, object representation and recognition. A/Prof. Wallis has also collaborated on several visuo-motor control projects concerned with vehicle control.
Research Projects and Selected Publications
For a list of A/Prof. Wallis' research projects and further listing of publications, please refer to the UQreSEARCHers website.
Zupanc, C., Burgess-Limerick, R., & Wallis, G. (in press). Control-response compatibility and the production of steering errors: Evidence from a coalmine shuttle car simulator. Human Factors.
Wallis, G., Chatziastros, A., Tresilian, J., & Tomasevic, N. (in press). The role of visual and nonvisual feedback in a vehicle steering task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Carter, O.L., Pettigrew, J.D., Hasler, F., Wallis, G.M., Liu, G.B., & Vollenweider, F.X. (in press). The 5-HT1A/2A agonist psilocybin links perceptual rivalry rate to arousal levels and negative psychosis-like symptoms in humans. Neuropsychopharmocology.
Research Students
Current research higher degree student topics under Dr Wallis' supervision are also available through the UQreSEARCHers website.
Doctor of Philosophy (Principal)
- Alexander Burmester
Doctor of Philosophy (Associate)
- Michael Carroll
- Christine Zupanc
- Duncan Mortimer
Master of Philosophy (Associate)
- Veronica Thorsson