Adrian Williams
Lecturer
Psychology
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Biography
Qualifications
- PhD Neuroscience (UCL)
- MSc Machine Perception & Neural Computing (Keele)
- BSc Applied Statistics & Computing (Liverpool)
Personal Biography
I was originally trained in the areas of statistics and computing before developing an interest in machine learning and artificial neural networks. From there, I moved to real neural networks, and completed my PhD in Neuroscience at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London. After a period of nearly five years as a postdoc at the Psychology Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, I joined the Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging at Brunel University as a lecturer.
Research
Research Overview
My research interests are broadly in the area of sensory perception, but with a primary focus on vision and the organization of the visual brain. I'm interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the underlying anatomy and functional organization of the visual brain that facilitate our sense of vision, primarily through the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), but also using behavioural/psychophysical approaches.
Member, Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging
Current Projects
Mind Science Foundation
Conscious and unconscious olfactory processing in the human brain
$15,000
June 2011 – June 2012
Adrian Williams (CI)
Bial Foundation
Memory for personal experience and the parietal cortex
€26,000
June 2011 – June 2013
Adrian Williams (CI)
Recently Completed Projects
Royal Society
Human visual processing and the role of feedback connections between cortex and thalamus
£7,000
April 2008 – April 2009
Adrian Williams (PI)
Teaching
Undergraduate Programmes
Module convenor
- Practical Investigations of Mind and Brain (L3)
Postgraduate Programmes
Programme convenor
- MSc Functional Neuroimaging
Module convenor
- Principles of Neuroimaging
Module contributor
- Visual Neuroscience
- Multidisciplinary Approaches to Health
- Functional Neuroscience for Rehabilitation (School of Health Sciences)
Administration
- Member of the University Academic Appeals Committee
- Touch Point (NSS) Co-ordinator
- Programme Director, MSc Functional Neuroimaging
External Activity
- Member of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2011) Amin, M., Olu-Lafe, O., Claessen, LE., Sobczak-Edmans, M., Ward, J., Williams, AL. and Sagiv, N., Understanding grapheme personification: A social synaesthesia?, Journal of Neuropsychology 5 (2) : 255- 282 Download publication
(2011) Smith, AT., Kosillo, P. and Williams, AL., The confounding effect of response amplitude on MVPA performance measures., Neuroimage 56 (2) : 525- 530
(2010) Williams, AL. and Smith, AT., Representation of eye position in the human parietal cortex., J Neurophysiol 104 (4) : 2169- 2177 Download publication
(2009) Williams, AL. and Wright, MJ., Static representations of speed and their neural correlates in human area MT/V5, Neuroreport 20 (16) : 1466- 1470
(2006) WILLIAMS., Cotillon-Williams, Nathalie M.. and Smith, Andrew T.., Attentional modulation in the human visual cortex: The timecourse of the BOLD response and its implications, NeuroImage 29 (1) : 328- 334
(2006) Smith, AT., Wall, MB., Williams, AL. and Singh, KD., Sensitivity to optic flow in human cortical areas MT and MST, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE 23 (2) : 561- 569
(2004) WILLIAMS., Singh, Krishna D.. and Smith, Andrew T.., Negative BOLD in the visual cortex: Evidence against blood stealing, Human Brain Mapping 21 (4) : 213- 220
(2003) WILLIAMS., Singh, Krishna D.. and Smith, Andrew T.., Surround modulation measured with functional MRI in the human visual cortex, Journal of Neurophysiology 89 (1) : 525- 533
(2002) Williams, AL., Reese, BE. and Jeffery, G., Role of retinal afferents in regulating growth and shape of the lateral geniculate nucleus., Journal of Comparative Neurology 445 (3) : 269- 277
(2002) Singh, KD., Barnes, GR., Hillebrand, A., Forde, EME. and Williams, AL., Task-related changes in cortical synchronization are spatially coincident with the hemodynamic response, Neuroimage 16 103–114- 103–114
(2001) WILLIAMS., Greenlee, M.W.., Singh, K.D.. and Smith, A.T.., Estimating receptive field size from fMRI data in human striate and extrastriate visual cortex, Cerebral Cortex 11 (12) : 1182- 1190
(2001) Williams, AL. and Jeffery, G., Growth dynamics of the developing lateral geniculate nucleus, J Comp Neurol 430 332–342- 332–342
(1999) Papakostopoulos, D., Hart, JC., Papakostopoulos, S., Dodson, K. and Williams, A., Standardized visual evoked potentials for telematic electrodiagnosis from five laboratories in three European countries, Journal of telemedicine and telecare 5 23–31- 23–31
(1994) Jeffery, G. and Williams, A., Is abnormal retinal development in albinism only a mammalian problem? Normality of a hypopigmented avian retina., Exp Brain Res 100 (1) : 47- 57 Download publication
Conference Papers
(2003) Cotillon-Williams, N., WILLIAMS, A., Singh, KD. and Smith, AT., Negative BOLD reflects attentional modulation, not blood stealing, Human Brain Mapping, Neuroimage (19) : S383-
(1997) WILLIAMS, AL., Jeffery, G. and Reese, BE., Ocular Innervation and Growth Dynamics in the Developing Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Society for Neuroscience
(2005) Williams, AL., Zanker, JM. and Ashida, H., Cortical activity during illusory motion sensations: The spinning disks illusion, , PERCEPTION (34) : 125- 126 Download publication
(2004) Smith, AT., Williams, AL., Singh, KD. and Wall, MB., Characterising the sub-regions of the human V5/MT complex, , PERCEPTION (33) : 21- 22 Download publication
(2003) Smith, AT., Williams, AL. and Singh, KD., Sensitivity to direction of gaze in human posterior parietal cortex, , Journal of Vision (3)
(2002) Smith, AT., Williams, AL. and Singh, KD., Human V1 and V2 compared with fMRI, , PERCEPTION (31) : 4- 5 Download publication
(2002) Smith, AT., Williams, AL. and Singh, KD., Receptive field construction in human area V2: Iteration or integration?, , Journal of Vision (2)
(2001) Williams, AL., Smith, AT. and Singh, KD., Centre-surround interactions: Modulatory effects in human visual cortex measured using fMRI, , NEUROIMAGE (13) : S958- S958 Download publication
(2000) Singh, KD., Williams, AL. and Smith, AT., An fMRI study of cortical activation during left-right discrimination of static, local motion, global motion and biological motion stimuli, , NeuroImage (11)
