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DR ANDREW ANDERSON



Contact Details

Organization: Optometry and Vision Sciences
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Work: 9349 7403
Fax: 9349 7498
Room: D210
Level: 01
Building: 374 Cardigan St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Eye Movements/ Neural Decision Making Australia
Perimetry Australia
Visual Psychophysics Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of Cambridge Research
United States Legacy Good Samaritan Devers Eye Institute Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science - Optometry University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1993
Master of Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1996
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2000

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Member 05-Sep-2006
Member International Perimetric Society Member 08-Mar-2006
Member Optometric Glaucoma Society Founding Member 11-Sep-2002
Member Optometrists Association Australia Member 07-Mar-2006
Member Victorian College of Optometry Member 07-Sep-2005
Member Australian Neuroscience Society Member 06-Sep-2005 31-Dec-2006

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) The University of Melbourne K.M. Brutton Bequest (2005). Mechanisms underlying inter-eye sensitivity losses in frequency doubling perimetry ($16,650) 18-Mar-2005

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Using eye movements to study how past experiences shape expectations Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
Getting back on track after the unexpected happens: decision making in predictable and unpredictable environments Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2012
REASSESSING EARLY EVIDENCE FOR PARALLEL INFORMATION CHANNELS FROM THE EYE - MELBOURNE EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER GRANT SCHEME 2006 Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2011

Journal Articles

  • Measuring Visual Function in Age-Related Macular Degeneration with Frequency-Doubling (Matrix) Perimetry


    Year: 2011
    Journal: Optometry and Vision Science
    Volume: 88
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 806-815
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  • Determining Mechanisms of Visual Loss in Glaucoma Using Rarebit Perimetry
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Optometry and Vision Science
    Volume: 88
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 48-55
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Publications in 2010

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Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • A simple two-stage model predicts response time distributions.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Physiology
    Volume: 587.16
    Page numbers: 4051-4062
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  • Appearance of the frequency-doubling stimulus at threshold.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Optometry
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 1477-1482
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  • Rapid confrontation screening for peripheral visual field defects and extinction.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Optometry
    Volume: 92
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 45-48
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Directional prediction by the saccadic system.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Current Biology
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 614-618
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  • Factors influencing the experience of oscillopsia in infantile nystagmus syndrome.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 3424-3431
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  • Measuring rod and cone dynamics in age-related maculopathy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 55-65
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  • Selection bias?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Ophthalmology
    Volume: 114
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2361-2361
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  • Task-induced stress and motivation decrease foveation-period durations in infantile Nystagmus syndrome.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 2977-2984
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  • The effect of stimuli that isolate S-cones on early saccades and the gap effect.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B - Biological Sciences
    Volume: 275
    Page numbers: 335-344
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Quantifying Adaptation and Fatigue Effects in Frequency Doubling Perimetry
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 943-948
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • A noisy transform predicts saccadic and manual reaction times to changes in contrast
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Physiology
    Volume: 573
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 741-751
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  • Changes in expectation consequent on experience, modeled by a simple forgetful neural circuit
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Vision
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 822-835
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  • Comparison of the ASA, MOBS and ZEST threshold methods
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 2403-2411
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  • The death of Schrödinger's cat and of consciousness-based quantum wave-function collapes
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 45-52
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Characteristics of the normative database for the Humphrey Matrix perimeter
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 1540-1548
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Eye movements: viewing the window of opportunity
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Current Biology
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: R951-R952
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Utility of a dynamic termination criterion in Bayesian adaptive threshold measures
    Year: 2004
    Event name: XVth International Perimetric Society Meeting
    Conference Publication: Perimetry Update 2002/2003. Proceedings of the SVth International Perimetric Society Meeting
    Page numbers: 191-197
    Publisher: Kugler Publications
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Anatomy of a super-group: does a criterion of normal perimetric performance generate a super-normal population?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 5043-5048
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  • Appearance of the frequency doubling stimulus in normal subjects and patients with glaucoma.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 111-111
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  • Frequency Doubling Technology perimetry and optical defocus
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 4147-4152
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  • Spatial resolution of the Tendency-Oriented Perimetry (TOP) algorithm
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 1962-1968
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  • Utility of a dynamic termination criterion in the ZEST adaptive threshold method
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 165-170
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Effect of dichoptic adaptation on frequency-doubling perimetry
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Optometry and Vision Science
    Volume: 77
    Page numbers: 88-92
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  • Effect of eccentricity on luminance-pedestal flicker thresholds
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1149-1156
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Effect of spatial waveform on apparent periodicity
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 725-732
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  • Elevated vernier acuity thresholds in glaucoma
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 1393-1399
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  • Mechanisms isolated in frequency-doubling technology perimetry
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 398-401
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Multiple processes mediate flicker sensitivity
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 19
    Page numbers: 2449-2455
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Small Samples: Does Size Matter
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1411-1413
    Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Inc(Maryland)
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