Rate My Professor David Burr

Burr's research interests encompass motion perception, numerosity perception, visual stability and spatiotopicity, perception of time, multisensory integration, and perceptual anomalies in autism. He has authored influential publications, including 'The ventriloquist effect results from near-optimal bimodal integration' in Current Biology (2004), 'When the world becomes too real: a Bayesian explanation of autistic perception' in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2012), 'A visual sense of number' in Current Biology (2008), 'Selective suppression of the magnocellular visual pathway during saccadic eye movements' in Nature (1994), 'Compression of visual space before saccades' in Nature (1997), and 'Saccadic eye movements cause compression of time as well as space' in Nature Neuroscience (2005). More recent works include 'Positive serial dependence in ratings of food images for appeal and calories' in Current Biology (2024), 'The pupil responds spontaneously to perceived numerosity' in Nature Communications (2021), and 'A Sensorimotor Numerosity System' in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2021). In 2018, Burr was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in recognition of his distinguished contributions to psychology and society. His research has significantly shaped understanding of perceptual processes through high-impact publications in leading journals and extensive international collaborations, including with colleagues at the University of Sydney such as Professor David Alais.