Question: On your profile, you wrote "My work helps to find out how our brains process visual information", how do you do this?

Ian van der Linde answered on 16 Jun 2011:

I do experiments with human volunteers in which I ask them to perform tasks whilst monitoring their eye movements, and sometimes their brain activity with EEG or fMRI, two pieces of machinery that can tell us which parts of the brain are working at any particular time. Examples of the sorts of task the volunteers do include searching for a target object among other objects (to look at how we program eye movements to search for something quickly), using a driving simulator (to look at attention), trying to recognise faces from different viewpoints (to look at the brain’s special face processing areas), trying to remember as many objects as possible flashed briefly on a screen (to look at short-term memory capacity), and many more.