Dr Dean Melmoth

Post-doctoral researcher

Academic Qualifications

Career Outline

Current Research

• Examining the relationship between perceptual input and motor control when presented with visual illusions.

Selected publications

Melmoth DR, Tibber, MS, Morgan MJ. (2010). Herman Lotze's Theory of 'Local Sign': evidence from pointing responses in an illusory figure. In Gangopadhyay, Madary, Spicer (Eds), Perception, Action and Consciousness (pp. 95-104). Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Melmoth DR, Tibber MS, Grant S, Morgan MJ. The Poggendorff illusion affects manual pointing as well as perceptual judgements. Neuropsychologia. 2009 47:3217-3224.
Melmoth DR, Grant S. Advantages of binocular vision for the control of reaching and grasping.

Experimental Brain Research, 2006 May;171(3):371-88. Epub 2005 Dec 2.
Tibber, MS, Saygin A, Grant S, Melmoth DR, Rees G, Morgan MJ. The neural correlates of visuospatial perceptual and occulomotor extrapolation. PLoS One, 2010:5(3):e9664.

Suttle C, Melmoth DR, Finlay A, Sloper J, Grant S. Eye-Hand coordination skills in children with and without amblyopia. Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science 2011 Mar; 52(3):1851-64.

Melmoth DR, Finlay AL, Morgan MJ, Grant S. Grasping deficits and adaptations in adults with stereo vision losses. Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science 2009 Aug;50(8):3711-20. Epub 2009 Apr 1.

Other publications

Tibber MS, Anderson EJ, Melmoth DR, Rees G, Morgan MJ. Common cortical loci are activated during visuospatial interpolation and orientation discrimination judgements. PLoS One. 2009;4(2):e4585. Epub 2009 Feb 24.

Kotecha A, O'Leary N, Melmoth D, Grant S, Crabb DP. The functional consequences of glaucoma for eye-hand coordination. Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science 2009 Jan;50(1):203-13. Epub 2008 Sep 20.

Tibber MS, Melmoth DR, Morgan MJ. Biases and sensitivities in the Poggendorff effect when driven by subjective contours. Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science 2008 Jan;49(1):474-8.

Melmoth DR, Storoni M, Todd G, Finlay AL, Grant S. Dissociation between vergence and binocular disparity cues in the control of prehension. Experimental Brain Research, 2007 183,283-298.

Grant S, Melmoth DR, Morgan MJ, Finlay AL. Prehension deficits in amblyopia. Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science, 2007 Mar;48(3):1139-48.

Melmoth DR, Rovamo JM. Scaling of letter size and contrast equalises perception across eccentricities and set sizes. Vision Research, 2003;43:769-777.

Mäkelä PK, Näsänen R, Rovamo JM, Melmoth DR. Identification of facial images in peripheral vision. Vision Research, 2001;41:599-610.

Melmoth D, Kukkonen H, Mäkelä P, Rovamo J. Scaling extrafoveal detection of distortion in a face and grating. Perception, 2000;29:1117-1126.

Melmoth D, Kukkonen H, Mäkelä P, Rovamo J. The effect of contrast and size scaling on face perception in foveal and extrafoveal vision. Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science, 2000;41:2811-2819.

Kukkonen H, Rovamo J, Melmoth D. Spatial integration and effective spectral density of one-dimensional noise masks. Vision Research, 1999;39:1775-1782.