Dr Gordon C. Baylis

Professor
Experimental Program Director

Gordon Baylis received his D. Phil. from the University of Oxford, then taught at U. C. San Diego before joining the faculty of U. S. C. in 1995. Dr Baylis had extensive training in physiology and biochemistry before he was romanced by attention and perception.

Dr Baylis is interested in:

• How does the brain organize or parse the visual scene?
• What are the brain mechanisms for allocating attention?
• What are the computational mechanisms of recognition?
• What effects can brain damage have on attention and perception?

Dr Baylis heads the Attention and Perception Laboratory in which research is carried out on these areas of interest.

The laboratory is currently funded by the National Science Foundation (SBR96-16555), and funding has also been provided by the Office of Naval Research, The National Institute of Mental Health, and N.A.T.O.

The research program of Dr Baylis is carried out on people with brain damage following strokes or dementing disorders, and on healthy adult volunteers. Studies are also conducted on people whose visual system is developing (children) or declining (the aged).

Setting this approach of multiple paradigms within a computational perspective allows us to generate models of visual perception and attention by people and computers.

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