Neil Mennie

Contact

• workRoom B1A16 Psychology
  Malaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• work+6 (03) 8924 8723
• fax+6 (03) 8924 8018
• Neil.Mennie@nottingham.edu.my
• http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Faculties/Science/Psychology/Pages/DrNeilMennie.aspx

Teaching Summary

Lectures

I have lectured on the following modules in the Faculty of Science. (* denotes previous years)

• Active Vision
• Biological Psychology
• Neuroscience and Behaviour
• Practical Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience
• Practical Methods in Psychology *
• Final Year Research Projects
• Animal Physiology (in Biosciences)
• Fundamentals of Neuroscience (in Biomedical Sciences)
• Human Physiology (in Biomedical Sciences)
• Whole Organism Biology (Biosciences)

Research Summary

Visual Cognition, Visual Perception and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Gaze movements, eye movements and visuomotor coordination of humans (and a captive bred Orangutan) in natural environments.

Stress and Anxiety

Colour vision and food preference.

The perception of faces.

Founded by Neil Mennie, the Active Vision Group is one of the University of Nottingham's 5 Research Groups.

Active Vision Group

Past Research

Tan, S. S., Maul, T. H. B., & Mennie, N. R. (2013). Measuring the Performance of Visual to Auditory Information Conversion. PLoS ONE, 8(5), e63042. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063042

Forde, E.M.E, Rusted, J, Mennie N., Land, M., and Humphreys, G.W. (2010) The eyes have it: An exploration of eye movements in action disorganisation syndrome. Neuropsychologia, Vol 48, Issue 7, pp 1895-1900. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.01.024

Underwood, G., Mennie, N., Humphrey, K. and Underwood, J., (2008). Remembering pictures of real-world images using eye fixation sequences in imagery and in recognition. Cognitive Vision, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5329, 51-64. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92781-5_5

Braun, D.I, Mennie, N., Rasche, C., Schutz, A.C, Hawken, M.J. and & Gegenfurtner, K.R., (2008). Smooth pursuit eye movements to isoluminant targets. The Journal of Neurophysiology, 100, 1287-1300. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00747.2007

Mennie, N., Hayhoe, M., & Sullivan, B., (2007). Look-ahead fixations: anticipatory eye movements in natural tasks. Experimental Brain Research. 179(3), 427-442. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0804-0

Hayhoe MM., Droll, J., Mennie, N. (2007) Learning where to look. In R. van Gompel, M. Fischer, W. Murray, & R. Hill (Eds.), Eye movement research: A window on mind and brain. p641- 660. Elsevier. Oxford. DOI:10.1016/B978-008044980-7/50032-X

Hayhoe MM., Mennie, N., Sullivan, B. & Gorgos, K. (2005) The role of Internal Models and Prediction in Catching balls. Technical Report - American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) FS, From Reactive to Anticipatory Cognitive Embodied Systems. 0505, 78-82.

Canosa, R.L., Pelz, J.B., Mennie, N.R., and Peak, J. (2003). High-level aspects of oculo-motor control during viewing of natural-task images. Proceedings IS&T/SPIE 15th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VIII ,5007, B.E. Rogowitz and T.N. Pappas, eds. DOI: 10.1117/12.477375

Land, M., Mennie, N., & Rusted, J. (1999) The roles of vision and eye movements in the control of activities of daily living. Perception: 28, 1311-1328. DOI: 10.1068/p2935