Andrew Glennerster

Professor of Visual Neuroscience

Phone: +44 118 378 5554
Fax: +44 118 378 6715
Address: School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AL
Satnav postcode: RG6 7BE
Email: a.glennerster 'at' reading.ac.uk
Room: 1S22
Student hours: Thursday 3:45-5:45pm

I study human vision, particularly 3D vision. My main interest is in how the visual system could represent the shape of surfaces and the layout of a scene when the observer is free to move. I trained as a doctor in Cambridge and studied stereo vision for my DPhil in the Psychology department at Oxford.

I have headed an Immersive Virtual Reality Laboratory at the University of Reading for many years to study spatial perception and motor control in freely-moving observers.

Collaborators and previous members: Marialena Stefanou, Alex Muryy, Peter Scarfe, Luise Gootjes-Dreesbach, Mark Adams, Jenny Vuong Stuart Gilson, Ellen Svarverud, Lyndsey Pickup, Andrew Parker, Suzanne McKee, Brian Rogers, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Miles Hansard, Tim Andrews, Yury Petrov, Maarten Hogervorst, Lili Tcheang, Sam Solomon, Jenny Read.

Some recent publications (more):

• Understanding 3D vision as a policy network.
  Glennerster, A. (2022) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B,, 378: 20210448
• Route selection in non-Euclidean virtual environments.
  Muryy, A. and Glennerster, A. (2021) PLoS One, 16(4):e0247818
  
• Lessons from reinforcement learning for biological representations of space.
  Muryy, A., Siddharth, N., Nardelli, N., Glennerster, A., and Torr, P. H. (2020) Vision Research 174, 79-93 and on arXiv.
  
• No single, stable 3D representation can explain pointing biases in a spatial updating task
  Vuong, J., Fitzgibbon, A.W. and Glennerster, A. (2019) Scientific Reports, 9 (1). 12578.
  
• The science behind virtual reality displays
  Scarfe, P. and Glennerster, A. (2019) Annual Review of Vision Science , 5, 529-547
  
• A single coordinate framework for optic flow and binocular disparity
  Glennerster, A. and Read, J.C.A. (2018) arXiv, 1808.03875
  
• Pointing Errors in Non-metric Virtual Environments
  Muryy, A. and Glennerster, A. (2018) Lecture Notes in Computer Science , 11034, 43-57 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-96385-3_4
  
• Preprint of: Perception and action without 3D coordinate frames
  Glennerster, A. and Stazicker, J. URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/13494
  
• Comparison of view-based and reconstruction-based models of human navigational strategy
  Gootjes-Dreesbach, E.L., Pickup, L.C., Fitzgibbon, A.W. and Glennerster, A. (2017) Journal of Vision, 17(9), 11. doi: 10.1167/17.9.11
  
• A moving observer in a 3D world
  Glennerster, A. (2016) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 371(1697), 20150265
  
• Using high-fidelity virtual reality to study perception in freely moving observers
  Scarfe, P. and Glennerster, A. (2015) Journal of Vision 15(9):3 1-11
  
• Visual stability - what is the problem?
  Glennerster, A. (2015) Frontiers in Psychology, 6:958
  
• Understanding vision - just around the corner or a distant dream?
  Glennerster, A. (2014) Current Biology, 34, R1145 - R1146
  
• Humans use predictive kinematic models to calibrate visual cues to three-dimensional surface slant
  Scarfe, P. and Glennerster, A. Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 10394-10401 (2014)