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Dr Will Curran

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Dr Will Curran

Dr Will Curran

School Of Psychology

My current interests are in the areas of motion transparency, interactions between direction sensitive mechanisms, neural mechanisms underlying adaptation in the human visual system, local & global motion processing, and time perception, as well as investigating the role of laughter in social interaction.

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  • w.curran@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 4337

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in;

  • Visual motion processing
  • Perceived duration of visual events
  • Identifying cortical loci of motion-induced illusions
  • Role of laughter in social interaction

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Public outreach & key achievements

Contributed to Northern Ireland Science Festival 2019 – the Laughter Factory


Research students

PhD area Visual event duration perception 
Name Lee Beattie
Years of study 2012-2019
Country Northern Ireland

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