Dr Simon Grant
Senior Lecturer: Head of Year 2
Academic and professional qualifications / memberships
| 1982 | PhD Binocular Visual Development, London University |
| 1977 | BSc Human Biology, Surrey University |
Brief outline of career history
| 2000 - present | Lecturer & Senior Lecturer, City University |
| 1998 - 2000 | Lecturer, Imperial College School of Medicine |
| 1991 - 1998 | Lecturer, Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School |
| 1987 - 1990 | Research Scientist, National Institute for Medical Resear |
Administrative responsibilities
- Module co-ordinator: Visual Neuroscience & Binocular Vision
- Module co-coordinator: Research Methods & Special Studies
- 01 Neural & Visual Biology
- 02 Visual Neuroscience, Binocular Vision
- Joint module co-ordinator: MSc Binocular Vision
Professional activities outside the University
- Member British Neuroscience Association
- Member Federal European Neuroscience Society
- Member Society for Neuroscience USA
- Visiting Lecturer, Basic Sciences for Ophthalmologists, Institute of Ophthalmology
Research interests
- Binocular Vision & the Control of Reaching & Grasping Movements
- Eye-Hand Coordination Deficits in Amblyopia & Stereo Vision Loss
- Neural Mechanisms underlying Perception versus Action
- Albinism: Visual Development & Consequences
Selected publications
- Grant S & Moseley MJ (2011) Amblyopia and real-world visuomotor tasks Strabismus 19:119-128.
- Suttle CM, Melmoth DR, Finlay AL, Sloper JJ, Grant S (2011) Eye-hand coordination skills in children with and without amblyopia Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 52:1851-1864
- Hiletag CC & Grant S (2010) Cytoarchitectural differences are key determinants of laminar projection origins in the visual cortex Neuroimage 51:1006-1017.
- Tibber MS, Saygin AP, Grant S, Melmoth DR, Rees G, Morgan MJ (2010) The neural correlates of visuospatial perecptual and oculomotor extrapolation PLoS One 5(3):e9664.
- Melmoth DR, Finlay AL, Morgan MJ, Grant S (2009) Grasping deficits and adaptations in adults with stereo vision losses Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 50:3711-3720
- Grant S, Melmoth DR, Morgan MJ and Finlay AL (2007). Prehension deficits in amblyopia. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 48, 1139-1148.
- Melmoth DR, Storoni M, Todd G, Finlay AL and Grant S (2007). Dissociation between vergence and binocular disparity cues in the control of prehension. Experimental Brain Research 183, 283-298.
- Melmoth DR, Grant S (2006). Advantages of binocular vision for the control of reaching and grasping. Experimental Brain Research 171, 371-388.
- Grant S, Binns KE (2003) Reduced influence of the ipsilateral ear on spatial tuning of auditory neurons in the albino superior colliculus: a knock-on effect of anomalies of the acoustic chiasm? Experimental Brain Research, 151: 478-488.
- Grant S, Waller W, Bhalla A, Kennard C (2002) Normal chiasmatic routing of uncrossed projections from the ventrotemporal retina of albino Xenopus frogs. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 458: 625-39