Professor Nick Scott-Samuel
B.A.(Bristol), MSc, Ph.D.(Birm.)
Current positions
Professor of Experimental Psychology
School of Psychological Science
Contact
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Research interests
My research was initially concerned with the visual perception of motion by humans, but I’ve become sidetracked over time by various other things, including the perception of food and drink, camouflage, visual search and the estimation of numerosity.
For more on my camouflage research, please go to www.camolab.com
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Revolutionising Museum Experiences for the Digital Age
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
One of the greatest advancements of the current AI revolution is the individualisation of content: not only will searching algorithms offer more self-relevant content to users, but generative methods will…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
01/08/2023 to 31/07/2024
8103 Motion illusions for defence
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/12/2020 to 30/11/2023
Creating a Personalised Museum Experience with Deep Learning
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Individual preferences for Art, like beauty, are thought to be in the eye of the beholder. But can science find away to identify what we really appreciate in paintings? Delving…Managing organisational unit
Dates
17/06/2019 to 31/01/2020
Concealing 3D objects
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Biological SciencesDates
08/06/2019 to 31/12/2022
The Camouflage machine: optimising patterns for camouflage and visibility
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/06/2015 to 31/05/2018
Thesis supervisions
Camouflage in a dynamic world
Supervisors
How background complexity impairs target detection and can mitigate poor camouflage.
Supervisors
Overcoming the predation costs of bilaterally symmetrical colouration
Supervisors
An extended investigation into predictors of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) in individuals who were parentally bereaved as adolescents or young adults
Supervisors
Does the geometry of perceptual colour space reflect the colours in our environment?
Supervisors
Do coloured filters benefit reading beyond placebo?
Supervisors
Countershading in Seabirds
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
03/10/2024Fiddler crabs (Afruca tangeri) detect second-order motion in both intensity and polarization
Communications Biology
How background complexity impairs target detection
Animal Behaviour
Camouflage, and its relationship with plausibility
A Sense of Plausibility in Vision and Music Perception
Dazzle
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Interactions between color and gloss in iridescent camouflage
Behavioral Ecology
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