Dr Will Harrison
UQ Amplify Lecturer / Research Fell
School of Psychology
+61 7 334 69527
Researcher biography
I received my PhD in 2013 in Psychology from the Department of Psychology at The University of Queensland. During my PhD I tested how eye movements affect visual perception, and I won an Australian Psychological Society and Dean's award for my thesis. In 2013 I moved to Cambridge, Massachussets, to study translational vision science with Professor Peter Bex at Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School. Pete's lab moved to Northeastern University in 2014, where I stayed for another year. In 2014 I received an Early Career Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, and moved to Cambridge, UK, in 2015 to work with Tristan Bekinschtein trying to understand consciousness. I later worked with Dr Paul Bays to understand why the brain is so limited in its ability to store visual short term memories. I am now an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow at the Queensland Brain Institute and the School of Psychology, The University of Queensland.
Journal Articles
Harrison, William J., Bays, Paul M. and Rideaux, Reuben (2023). Neural tuning instantiates prior expectations in the human visual system. Nature Communications, 14 (1) 5320. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41027-w
Harrison, William J., Bays, Paul M. and Rideaux, Reuben (2023). Biased population coding of visual orientation in the human brain. Journal of Vision, 23 (9), 5278. doi: 10.1167/jov.23.9.5278
West, Rebecca K., Harrison, William J., Matthews, Natasha, Mattingley, Jason B. and Sewell, David K. (2023). Modality independent or modality specific? Common computations underlie confidence judgements in visual and auditory decisions. PLOS Computational Biology, 19 (7) e1011245, e1011245. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011245
A-Izzeddin, Emily, Mattingley, Jason and Harrison, William (2022). Contextual Influences of Perceptual Inferences. Journal of Vision, 22 (14), 3811. doi: 10.1167/jov.22.14.3811
Harrison, William J (2022). Luminance and contrast of images in the THINGS database. Perception, 51 (4), 244-262. doi: 10.1177/03010066221083397
Rideaux, Reuben, West, Rebecca K., Wallis, Thomas S.A., Bex, Peter J., Mattingley, Jason B. and Harrison, William J. (2022). Spatial structure, phase, and the contrast of natural images. Journal of Vision, 22 (1), 1-19. doi: 10.1167/JOV.22.1.4
Dear, Micaela and Harrison, William J. (2021). The influence of visual distortion on face recognition. Cortex, 146, 238-249. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.10.008
Harrison, William J., McMaster, Jessica M. V. and Bays, Paul M. (2021). Limited memory for ensemble statistics in visual change detection. Cognition, 214 104763, 104763. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104763
Schneegans, Sebastian, Harrison, William J. and Bays, Paul M. (2021). Location-independent feature binding in visual working memory for sequentially presented objects. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 83 (6), 2377-2393. doi: 10.3758/s13414-021-02245-w
Harrison, William J. (2019). Segmenting processes in the human lateral geniculate nucleus. Cortex, 121, 485-487. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.07.011
Rideaux, Reuben and Harrison, William J. (2019). Border ownership-dependent tilt aftereffect for shape defined by binocular disparity and motion parallax. Journal of Neurophysiology, 121 (5), 1917-1923. doi: 10.1152/jn.00111.2019
Harrison, William J. (2019). The (in)visibility of groomed ski runs. i-Perception, 10 (2), 204166951984289. doi: 10.1177/2041669519842895
Lodge, Jason M. and Harrison, William J. (2019). The role of attention in learning in the digital age. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 92 (1), 21-28.
Harrison, William J., Ayeni, Alvin J. and Bex, Peter J. (2019). Attentional selection and illusory surface appearance. Scientific Reports, 9 (1) 2227, 2227. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-37084-7
Harrison, William J. and Rideaux, Reuben (2019). Voluntary control of illusory contour formation. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81 (5), 1522-1531. doi: 10.3758/s13414-019-01678-8
Harrison, William J. and Bays, Paul M. (2018). Visual working memory is independent of the cortical spacing between memoranda. The Journal of Neuroscience, 38 (12), 3116-3123. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2645-17.2017
Harrison, William J. and Bex, Peter J. (2017). Visual crowding is a combination of an increase of positional uncertainty, source confusion, and featural averaging. Scientific Reports, 7 (45551) 45551, 45551. doi: 10.1038/srep45551
Maiello, Guido, Harrison, William J. and Bex, Peter J. (2016). Monocular and binocular contributions to oculomotor plasticity. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) 31861, 31861. doi: 10.1038/srep31861
Harrison, William J. and Bex, Peter J. (2016). How best to unify crowding? Reply. Current Biology, 26 (9), R353-R354. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.024
Harrison, William J. and Bex, Peter J. (2015). A Unifying Model of Orientation Crowding in Peripheral Vision. Current Biology, 25 (24), 3213-3219. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.10.052
Robinson, Gail A., Spooner, Donna and Harrison, William J. (2015). Frontal dynamic aphasia in progressive supranuclear palsy: distinguishing between generation and fluent sequencing of novel thoughts. Neuropsychologia, 77, 62-75. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.08.001
Harrison, William J. and Bex, Peter J. (2014). Integrating retinotopic features in spatiotopic coordinates. Journal of Neuroscience, 34 (21), 7351-7360. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5252-13.2014
Harrison, W. J., Remington, R. W. and Mattingley, J. B. (2014). Visual crowding is anisotropic along the horizontal meridian during smooth pursuit. Journal of Vision, 14 (1) 21, 1-16. doi: 10.1167/14.1.21
Harrison, William J., Retell, James D., Remington, Roger W. and Mattingley, Jason B. (2013). Visual crowding at a distance during predictive remapping. Current Biology, 23 (9), 793-798. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.03.050
Harrison, William J., Mattingley, Jason B. and Remington, Roger W. (2013). Eye movement targets are released from visual crowding. Journal of Neuroscience, 33 (7), 2927-2933. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4172-12.2013
Harrison, William J., Mattingley, Jason B. and Remington, Roger W. (2013). Releasing crowding prior to a saccade requires more than "attention": response to van Koningsbruggen and Buonocore. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33 (28).
Harrison, William J., Mattingley, Jason B. and Remington, Roger W. (2012). Pre-saccadic shifts of visual attention. Plos One, 7 (9) e45670, e45670.1-e45670.10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045670
Harrison, William J., Thompson, Matthew B. and Sanderson, Penelope M. (2010). Multisensory integration with a head-mounted display: Background visual motion and sound motion. Human Factors, 52 (1), 78-91. doi: 10.1177/0018720810367790
Conference Papers
Rideaux, Reuben and Harrison, William (2019). Border-ownership-dependent tilt aftereffect for shape defined by binocular disparity and motion parallax. 42nd European Conference on Visual Perception, Leuven, Belgium, 25-29 August 2019. London, United Kingdom: Sage.
Harrison, William J., Stead, Imogen, Wallis, Thomas S. A., Bex, Peter J. and Mattingley, Jason B. (2019). Trans-saccadic updating of spatial attention: Classification images and generative model comparisons. 42nd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2019 , Leuven, Belgium, 25 - 29 August, 2019. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. doi: 10.1177/0301006619863862
Harrison, W., Remington, R. and Mattingley, J. (2013). Visual crowding is altered during smooth pursuit eye movements. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, Florida, 10-15 March 2013. Rockville, MD, United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1167/13.9.581
Tear, Morgan J., Harrison, William J., Thompson, Matthew B. and Sanderson, Penelope M. (2009). Head-mounted displays and multisensory integration: Replications and challenges. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 53rd Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 19-23 October 2009. United States: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. doi: 10.1518/107118109x12524443345230
Thesis
Harrison, William J. (2012). Influences of voluntary eye movements on object perception in peripheral vision. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland.