Staff
Dr Lore Thaler
Lecturer in the Department of Psychology
Member of the Biophysical Sciences Institute
Member of the Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition
Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Contact Dr Lore Thaler (email at lore.thaler@durham.ac.uk)
Indicators of Esteem
- 2012: Conference Committee: Predicting Perceptions Conference, April 17-19,2012, Edinburgh, UK
- 2012: Grant:
Grant: Biophysical Sciences Institute EPSRC Bridging the Gap Grant (2012); Project: Teaching and Evaluating the Use of Palatal Clicks for Human Echolocation (6,000 £); Co-Investigator: Ian Jermyn, Mathematical Sciences, Durham University.
- 2012: keynote address: Annual meeting of the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists, Notthingham, UK, May 19-20, 2012.
- 2012: plenary address: Meeting of the centre for consciousness studies, Tucson, Arizona, USA, April 9-13, 2012
- 2011: Grant:
Wolfson Research Institute EPSRC Bridging the Gap Grant (2011); Project: Mathematical Modelling of Echolocation in People (4,000 £); Co-Investigator: Ian Jermyn, Mathematical Sciences, Durham University.
- 2010: Grant: Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship (08/2008-07/2010), Project: Investigation of Neural Correlates of Visual-Spatial Representations (50,000 CA $)
- 2010: Travel Bursary:
Workshop on Perception & Action, Santa Fe Institute,September 13-16, 2010, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Research Groups
Research Interests
- Human echolocation
- Visual perception
- Auditory perception
- Blindness
- Planning and control of movements (e.g. hand movements or eye movements)
- Psychophysics
- Kinematics
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Publications
Books: sections
- Schlicht, Tobias, Vetter, Petra, Thaler, Lore & Moss, Cynthia (2012). Wahrnehmung. In Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft. Stephan, Achim & Walter, Sven Stuttgart: Metzler.
Journal papers: academic
- Thaler,Lore, Schütz, Alexander C Goodale, Melvyn A & Gegenfurtner Karl R (2013). What is the best fixation target? The effect of target shape on stability of fixational eye movements. Vision Research 76: 31-42.
- Thaler, Lore, Milne,Jennifer Arnott,Stephen Kish,Daniel & Goodale, Melvyn (2012). Neural Correlates of Motion Processing through Echolocation, Source Hearing and Vision in Blind Echolocation Experts and Sighted Echolocation Novices. under review in Journal of Neuroscience
- Thaler, Lore, Arnott, Stephen & Goodale, Melvyn (2011). Neural correlates of natural human echolocation in early and late blind echolocation experts. PLoS ONE 6(5): e20162.
- Thaler, Lore & Goodale, Melvyn (2011). Neural substrates of visual spatial coding and visual feedback control for hand movements in allocentric and target-directed tasks. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5: 92.
- Thaler, Lore & Goodale, Melvyn (2011). Reaction times for allocentric movements are 35 ms slower than reaction times for target-directed movements. Experimental Brain Research 211(2): 313.
- Thaler, Lore & Goodale, Melvyn (2011). The role of online visual feedback for the control of target-directed and allocentric hand movements. Journal of Neurophysiology 105(2): 846-859.
- Gordon, G, Kaplan, DM, Lankow, B, Little, DY, Sherwin, J, Suter, BA & Thaler L (2011). Toward an integrated approach to perception and action: conference report and future directions. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 5.
- Thaler, Lore & Goodale, Melvyn (2010). Beyond distance and direction: the brain represents target locations non-metrically. Journal of Vision 10(3): 3.
- Thaler, Lore & Todd, James (2010). Evidence from visuomotor adaptation for two partially independent visuomotor systems. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 36(4): 924-935.
- Todd, James & Thaler, Lore (2010). The perception of 3D shape from texture based on directional width gradients. Journal of Vision 10(5): 17.
- Thaler, Lore & Todd, James (2009). The control parameters used by the CNS to guide the hand depend on the visuo-motor task: evidence from visually guided pointing. Neuroscience 159(2): 578.
- Thaler, Lore & Todd, James (2009). The use of head/eye-centered, hand-centered and allocentric representations for visually guided hand movements and perceptual judgments. Neuropsychologia 47(5): 1227.
- Thaler, L, Todd, JT, Spering, M & Gegenfurtner, KR (2007). Illusory bending of a rigidly moving line segment: effects of image motion and smooth pursuit eye movements. Journal of Vision 7(6): 9.
- Thaler, L, Todd, JT & Dijkstra, TM (2007). The effects of phase on the perception of 3D shape from texture: psychophysics and modeling. Vision Research 47(3): 411.
- Todd, JT, Thaler, L, Dijkstra, TM, Koenderink, JJ & Kappers, AM (2007). The effects of viewing angle, camera angle, and sign of surface curvature on the perception of three-dimensional shape from texture. Journal of Vision 7(12): 9.
- Todd, JT, Thaler, L & Dijkstra, TM (2005). The effects of field of view on the perception of 3D slant from texture. Vision Research 45(12): 1501.