Dr Michael Proulx
Profile
Michael J Proulx is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. He leads the Crossmodal Cognition Laboratory, and is a member of the Cognition, Affective Science and Technology Labs (CASTL) and an affiliate of the CREATE group. Michael is an investigator on an EPSRC-funded project, DePIC (Design Patterns for Inclusive Collaboration). Michael investigates fundamental issues in cognition (attention, perception, learning and memory) through the study of multiple sensory modalities. He takes a converging methods approach to best understand the psychological and neural underpinnings of cognition in humans, the impact of visual impairment, and, with interdisciplinary collaborative comparative studies, in zebrafish, bees, and non-human primates. He also collaborates extensively with electronic engineers and computer scientists to develop applications of his basic research.
Teaching
Undergraduate
PS10088 Quantitative Methods 1
Publications
Book Sections
Proulx, M., 2013. Visual Search. In: Pashler, H., ed. Encyclopedia of the Mind. Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, U. S. A.: Sage, pp. 762-765.
Mirza, S.N.H., Izquierdo, E. and Proulx, M., 2011. Gaze movement inference for user adapted image annotation and retrieval. In: MM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Multimedia Conference and Co-Located Workshops - ACM Workshop on Social Behavioural Networked Media Access 2011, SBNMA'11. , pp. 27-32.
Articles
Haigh, A., Brown, D. J., Meijer, P. and Proulx, M. J., 2013. How well do you see what you hear? : The acuity of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution. Frontiers in psychology, 4, 330.
Proulx, M., 2013. Introducing the process and content of research into lectures, the laboratory, and study time. College Teaching, 61 (3), pp. 85-87.
Pasqualotto, A., Lam, J. S. Y. and Proulx, M. J., 2013. Congenital blindness improves semantic and episodic memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 244, pp. 162-165.
Pasqualotto, A., Spiller, M. J., Jansari, A. S. and Proulx, M. J., 2013. Visual experience facilitates allocentric spatial representation. Behavioural Brain Research, 236, pp. 175-179.
Proulx, M., 2013. Blindness : remapping the brain and the restoration of vision. Psychological Science Agenda
Proulx, M. J., Brown, D. J., Pasqualotto, A. and Meijer, P., 2013. Forthcoming. Multisensory perceptual learning and sensory substitution. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Pasqualotto, A. and Proulx, M. J., 2013. Forthcoming. The study of blindness and technology can reveal the mechanisms of 3D navigation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Hajimirza, S. N., Proulx, M. J. and Izquierdo, E., 2012. Reading users' minds from their eyes: a method for implicit image annotation. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 14 (3), pp. 805-815.
Pasqualotto, A. and Proulx, M. J., 2012. The role of visual experience for the neural basis of spatial cognition. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36 (4), pp. 1179-1187.
Proulx, M. J. and Green, M., 2011. Does apparent size capture attention in visual search? Evidence from the Müller-Lyer illusion. Journal of Vision, 11 (13), 21.
Proulx, M. J., 2011. Individual differences and metacognitive knowledge of visual search strategy. PLoS ONE, 6 (10), e27043.
Proulx, M. J., 2011. Consciousness : what, how, and why. Science, 332 (6033), pp. 1034-1035.
Proulx, M. J., 2010. Size matters : large objects capture attention in visual search. PLoS ONE, 5 (12), e15293.
Proulx, M. J., 2010. Synthetic synaesthesia and sensory substitution. Consciousness and Cognition, 19 (1), pp. 501-503.
Zehetleitner, M., Proulx, M. J. and Muller, H. J., 2009. Additional-singleton interference in efficient visual search: a common salience route for detection and compound tasks. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71 (8), pp. 1760-1770.
Liang, M., Van Leeuwen, T. M. and Proulx, M. J., 2008. Propagation of brain activity during audiovisual integration. Journal of Neuroscience, 28 (36), pp. 8861-8862.
Proulx, M. J., Stoerig, P., Ludowig, E. and Knoll, I., 2008. Seeing ‘where’ through the ears : effects of learning-by-doing and long-term sensory deprivation on localization based on image-to-sound substitution. PLoS ONE, 3 (3), e1840.
Homa, D., Proulx, M. J. and Blair, M., 2008. The modulating influence of category size on the classification of exception patterns. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61 (3), pp. 425-443.
Proulx, M. J. and Egeth, H. E., 2008. Biased competition and visual search: the role of luminance and size contrast. Psychological Research, 72 (1), pp. 106-113.
Proulx, M. J. and Harder, A., 2008. Sensory substitution : visual-to-auditory sensory substitution devices for the blind. Tijdschrift voor Ergonomie, 33, pp. 20-22.
Proulx, M. J., 2007. Turning on the spotlight : do attention and luminance contrast affect neuronal responses in the same way? Journal of Neuroscience, 27 (48), pp. 13043-13044.
Proulx, M. J., 2007. Bottom-up guidance in visual search for conjunctions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33 (1), pp. 48-56.
Proulx, M. J. and Serences, J. T., 2006. Searching for an oddball : neural correlates of singleton detection mode in parietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 26 (49), pp. 12631-12632.
Proulx, M. J. and Egeth, H. E., 2006. Target-nontarget similarity modulates stimulus-driven control in visual search. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13 (3), pp. 524-529.
Proulx, M. J. and Stoerig, P., 2006. Seeing sounds and tingling tongues : qualia in synaesthesia and sensory substitution. Anthropology & Philosophy: International Multidisciplinary Journal
