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10833
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155

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Overview

David Alais is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research spans experimental and cognitive psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, social psychology, and neurology. The emphasis is on understanding the mechanisms of visual perception and processing, multisensory perception and integration, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Alais has published in various scientific venues, predominantly in the Journal of Vision, with 19 publications. Other frequent venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 13 publications, Scientific Reports with 5, Current Biology with 3, and Perception with 3 publications.

Major research topics covered by Alais include:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Notable recent papers by Alais include:

  • A shared mechanism for facial expression in human faces and face pareidolia, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Serial dependence in perception requires conscious awareness, 2020, Current Biology
  • Individual difference in serial dependence results from opposite influences of perceptual choices and motor responses, 2020, Journal of Vision
  • Auditory Rate Perception Displays a Positive Serial Dependence, 2020, i-Perception
  • Individual differences in serial dependence manifest when sensory uncertainty is high, 2021, Vision Research

Frequent collaborators of David Alais include Matthew Davidson with 21 joint publications, Frans A.J. Verstraten with 12, Robert Keys with 9, Randolph Blake with 7, and Jacob Coorey with 7.

Best Publications

  • The Ventriloquist Effect Results from Near-Optimal Bimodal Integration

    David Alais;David Burr

  • Multisensory processing in review: From physiology to behaviour

    David Alais;Fiona N. Newell;Pascal Mamassian

  • Separate attentional resources for vision and audition.

    David Alais;Concetta Morrone;David Burr

  • Visual features that vary together over time group together over space

    David Alais;Randolph Blake;Sang-Hun Lee

  • Rapid recalibration to audiovisual asynchrony.

    Erik Van der Burg;David Alais;John Cass

  • Visual Sensitivity Underlying Changes in Visual Consciousness

    David Alais;John R Cass;Robert P O’Shea;Robert P O’Shea;Randolph Blake;Randolph Blake

  • Multisensory congruency as a mechanism for attentional control over perceptual selection.

    Raymond van Ee;Jeroen Johan Adrien van Boxtel;Amanda L Parker;David Alais

  • Different coding strategies for the perception of stable and changeable facial attributes.

    Jessica Taubert;David Alais;David Burr

  • Attention Speeds Binocular Rivalry

    Chris L.E. Paffen;David Alais;Frans A.J. Verstraten

  • Grouping visual features during binocular rivalry

    David Alais;Randolph Blake

  • The role of holistic processing in face perception: evidence from the face inversion effect

    Jessica Taubert;Deborah M Apthorp;David Aagten-Murphy;David Alais

  • No direction-specific bimodal facilitation for audiovisual motion detection.

    David Alais;David Burr

  • Neural strength of visual attention gauged by motion adaptation.

    David Alais;Randolph Blake

  • Combining visual and auditory information.

    David Burr;David Alais

  • Perceptual synchrony of audiovisual streams for natural and artificial motion sequences.

    Roberto Arrighi;David Alais;David Burr

  • Strength and coherence of binocular rivalry depends on shared stimulus complexity.

    David Alais;David Melcher

  • Efficient visual search from synchronized auditory signals requires transient audiovisual events

    Erik Van der Burg;John Cass;Christian N. L. Olivers;Jan Theeuwes

  • Increasing depth of binocular rivalry suppression along two visual pathways.

    Vincent A. Nguyen;Alan W. Freeman;David Alais

  • Synchronizing to real events: subjective audiovisual alignment scales with perceived auditory depth and speed of sound.

    David Alais;Simon Carlile

  • Erratum: Visual features that vary together over time group together over space

    David Alais;Randolph Blake;Sang-Hun Lee

  • Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain

    David Alais

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Burr
David C. Burr University of Florence
Randolph Blake
Randolph Blake Vanderbilt University
Frans A. J. Verstraten
Frans A. J. Verstraten University of Sydney
Maria Concetta Morrone
Maria Concetta Morrone University of Pisa
Peter Wenderoth
Peter Wenderoth Macquarie University
Bahador Bahrami
Bahador Bahrami Max Planck Society
Jan Theeuwes
Jan Theeuwes Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pascal Mamassian
Pascal Mamassian École Normale Supérieure
Mark T. Wallace
Mark T. Wallace Vanderbilt University
Raymond van Ee
Raymond van Ee Radboud University

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