
Jac Billington
- Position: Associate Professor
- Areas of expertise: Neuroscience; perception; action; motor control; DCD; vision; driving; looming; collision; pain; multisensory.
- Email: J.Billington@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 6686
- Location: Room G.06A , Psychology building
- Website: Twitter | Googlescholar | ORCID
Responsibilities
- Research Lead
Research interests
I am currently focussed on the following projects:
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Leverhulme Fellowship (PI)
To see or not to see: Camouflage and human process of detection: Using computational methods to simulate this evolutionary process in the context of considering why human observers sometimes fail to detect objects which pose a threat in a variety of environments.
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EPSRC Project Grant:
COMMOTIONS: Computational Models of Traffic Interactions for Testing of Automated Vehicles
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Psychology: Durham University
- PhD Neuroscience: University of Cambridge
Professional memberships
- Member of the Experimental Psychology Society
Student education
I currently teach on:
- PSYC1608: Perception (Module Leader)
- PSYC1614: Psychology at Leeds
- PSYC2510: Advanced Developmental Psychology
- PSYC3520: Major Project
- PSYC5902M: Systematic Review
I currently supervise the following PhD students: