Research

My research centres around visual attention and scene understanding.  I'm interested in learning how we convert visual sensory information into a semantic concepts like a scene's category and how we then use this information to direct our gaze.  More recently, I have started investigating how children process and understand their visual world differently to adults.

I predominantly use eye-tracking, but also use virtual reality (VR), drawing, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

Interested in studying toward a PhD or want to gain research experience?

Get in touch if you'd like to talk about working towards a PhD!

If you would like to gain research experience from working in my lab please get in touch; I am always grateful for extra help! 

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Dr Malcolm is an Associate Professor in Psychology, having joined UEA in 2016. He did his undergraduate degree at St Andrews, Masters at York and PhD at Edinburgh. He has worked as a research assistant at Harvard Medical School, Princeton and University of British Columbia, and has been a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, George Washington University, and the National Institute of Mental Health.

Methods: Eye-tracking, TMS

Research: High-level vision, scene processing, visual attention

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