Rate My Professor Will Harrison

As a cognitive neuroscientist, Will Harrison investigates how the brain transforms visual information into conscious perceptions, thoughts, and memories. His research focuses on object perception and memory in peripheral vision, the effects of eye movements on vision, and how natural scene statistics guide perceptual processes. He applies psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to advance understanding of visual cognition, with implications for designing intuitive visual displays and enhancing human-computer interfaces. Harrison has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including the Journal of Neuroscience, Current Biology, Nature Communications, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Key publications include "Eye movement targets are released from visual crowding" (Journal of Neuroscience, 2013), "A unifying model of orientation crowding in peripheral vision" (Current Biology, 2015), "Visual working memory is independent of the cortical spacing between memoranda" (Journal of Neuroscience, 2018), "Neural tuning instantiates prior expectations in the human visual system" (Nature Communications, 2023), and recent works such as "A computational account of transsaccadic attentional allocation based on visual gain fields" (PNAS, 2024). He teaches PSY104 Research Methods and Analysis 1 at the University of the Sunshine Coast.