• Question: what have you discovered whilst studying your area?

    Asked by shmexiibob to David, Helen, Ian, rhysphillips, Sarah on 14 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Rhys Phillips

      Rhys Phillips answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I’ve discovered how often planes are struck by lightning and the sort of damage it causes – this makes it all that more important to make sure that the planes are protected properly.

    • Photo: Helen Fletcher

      Helen Fletcher answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I have made a series of very small discoveries about the different effects TB vaccines have on the immune system. For example, TGFB is reduced and IL17 is increased by TB vaccines. Nothing big yet but maybe my small discoveries will help someone else to find something really big!

    • Photo: Ian van der Linde

      Ian van der Linde answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      A few different things. We have found out what sorts of features attract people’s attention in pictures, how well people can recognize faces when viewed at different angles, how many objects in a scene people can remember and how they bind these objects with their locations, that people unite physical actions with memory for objects so that repeating a physical action can enhance the memory for the object, and several other theories relating to memory, face perception and the control of our eyes while searching for objects or just looking at pictures.

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