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DR ANDREW METHA



Contact Details

Organization: Optometry and Vision Sciences
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.optometry.unimelb.edu.au/research/biophotonics.html
Work: 61 3 9349 7426
Fax: 61 3 9349 7498
Level: 02
Building: 374 Cardigan St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Vision Science Optics, Colour Vision, Physiology, Sensory Systems Australia, United States of America, Canada

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Australia The Australian National University Research
United States New York University Exchange, Research
Australia Queensland University of Technology Research
United States University of Rochester Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Monash University 18-Mar-1987
Bachelor of Science - Optometry University of Melbourne 17-Mar-1990
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 14-Sep-1995
Postgraduate Certificate in Ocular Therapeutics University of Melbourne 28-Aug-2008

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Registered Optometrists Registration Board of Victoria Registered Optometrist 31-Dec-1994
Member Victorian College of Optometry Regular member 31-Dec-1994
Member National Vision Research Institute Regular member 31-Dec-1994

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
Optical imaging of brain activity: studies of the neural basis of sensory perception, plasticity and behaviour Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2004
Advanced technologies for laser refractive surgery Chief Investigator IATIA PTY LTD,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2004
Synaptic and network properties underlying neural coding in the mammalian visual cortex Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
Functional imaging of colour pathways in the living eye Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

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 2008

Journal Articles

  • Characteristics of the human isoplanatic patch and implications for adaptive optics retinal imaging.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Biomedical Optics
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-7
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  • Exploring ocular aberrations with a schematic human eye model.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Optometry and Vision Science
    Volume: 85
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 330-340
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Frequency-Doubling Illusion under Scotopic Illumination and in Peripheral Vision
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 3413-3418
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  • Spatial structure of the frequency doubling illusion
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 1732-1744
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  • The relationship between temporal phase discrimination ability and the frequency doubling illusion
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Vision
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 14
    Page numbers: 1-11
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  • Two expressions of "surround suppression" in V1 that arise independent of cortical mechanisms of suppression
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Visual Neuroscience
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 99-109
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Multiconjugate adaptive optics applied to an anatomically accurate human eye model
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 18
    Page numbers: 8019-8030
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Activity-dependent maintenance and growth of dendrites in adult cortex
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 102
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 4631-4636
    Publisher: National Academy of Sciences(Washington DC)
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  • Diabetes research advances. Why Jeremy wishes he were a mouse.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Optometry
    Volume: 88
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 129-131
    Publisher: Optometrists Association Australia(Carlton)
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  • Visual function: the problem with eccentricity
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Optometry
    Volume: 88
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 313-321
    Publisher: Optometrists Association Australia(Carlton)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Artificial scotoma-induced perceptual distortions are orientation dependent and short lived
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Visual Neuroscience
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 79-87
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Local signals from beyond the receptive fields of striate cortical neurons
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Neurophysiology
    Volume: 90
    Page numbers: 822-831
    Publisher: American Physiological Society(Maryland)
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  • Topographic plasticity in primary visual cortex is mediated by local corticocortical connections
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 16
    Page numbers: 6434-6442
    Publisher: Society of Neuroscience(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Enhanced sensitivity for peripherally-presented collinearly-aligned stimulus elements: contour detection or spatial summation?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Optometry
    Volume: 84
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 354-360
    Publisher: Optometrists Association Australia(Carlton)
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  • Information Conveyed by Onset Transients in Responses of Striate Cortical Neurons
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 17
    Page numbers: 6978-6990
    Publisher: Society of Neuroscience(Washington DC)
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  • Maintaining the cornea and the general physiological environment in visual neurophysiology experiments
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience Methods
    Volume: 109
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 153-166
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Packing arrangement of the three cone classes in primate retina
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 10-11
    Page numbers: 1291-1306
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Transmission of spatial information in S-cone pathways
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Visual Neuroscience
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 961-972
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