Dr Stuart P. Wilson (Research Fellow)
Contact
- Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TP, UK.
- Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 6540
- Fax: +44 (0) 114 276 6515 (shared with department)
- Email: S.P.Wilson/at/sheffield.ac.uk
Summary
- I am interested in how our experiences shape our developing brains, and have been integrating theoretical, computational, behavioural, and robotic models of sensory processing in the context of tactile sensing. For my PhD I investigated the extent to which self-organising networks can explain how the somatosensory cortex learns to represent inputs from the body. As a research fellow, I am piloting a novel neuroscientific approach, exploring cortical map self-organisation driven by the multi-sensory experiences of a synthetic rodent littermate.
Research Interests
- Input driven self-organisation as a theory of cortical development
- Neural computations underlying motion processing
- Robots as scientific models
- Spatial learning
Peer-reviewed print articles
2011
2010
- Wilson, S. P., Law, J. S., Mitchinson, B., Prescott, T. J., Bednar, J. A. (2010), Modeling the emergence of whisker direction maps in rat barrel cortex, PLoS ONE, 5(1): e8778.
2009
- Alexander, T., Wilson, S. P., & Wilson, P. N. (2009), Blocking of spatial learning based on shape, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(3):694-708.
2007
Other work
- Wilson, S. P. (2011), Figuring time by space: Representing sensory motion in cortical maps, PhD Thesis, University of Sheffield, UK.
- Wilson, S. P. (2007), Self-organisation can explain the mapping of angular whisker deflections in the barrel cortex, Masters Thesis, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
