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Curtis Baker is a Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), Montreal General Hospital site, and a Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at McGill University. His research focuses on understanding human visual perception, particularly low-level neural mechanisms that underpin everyday visual processing of figure-ground and local depth relationships through cues like contrast, texture, and motion.
- Institutional Affiliation: RI-MUHC, McGill University
- Academic Rank: Professor
His lab employs human psychophysics, electrophysiology, optical imaging, and computational modeling to study how early visual processing detects and utilizes complex cues. Key research areas include receptive field dynamics, second-order boundary perception, and machine learning applications in visual neuroscience.
Recent publications highlight his work on convolutional neural networks for receptive field estimation, Y-like neuronal responses in human vision, and texture regularity models using wavelet analysis. Collaborations span computational neuroscience, optical imaging, and depth perception mechanisms.
Students and researchers in his lab include graduate students in Integrated Program in Neuroscience, Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering, alongside alumni contributing to neurophysiology and computational biology projects.
