Tom Carlson

Professor Tom Carlson is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Science. His research focuses on visual perception, cognitive biases, and neural decoding, with notable contributions to understanding serial dependence in food ratings and visual feature coding dynamics. He has led grants such as 'Measuring dietary biases using non-invasive decoding of brain activity' (2024) and 'Fluent Mobility for the Blind Individual Using Multimodal Auditory Sensory Augmentation' (2022).

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Research interests include exploring how perception shapes dietary choices, neural mechanisms underlying visual processing, and developmental aspects of conceptual categories in children's brains. His work integrates computational modeling and experimental psychology, with recent findings featured in Current Biology and PLoS Computational Biology.

Publications highlight interdisciplinary approaches, blending neuroscience and psychology to address topics like deepfake detection and visual illusion perception (e.g., the 'mountain illusion').

• Grants: Over 50 grants including core funding for dietary bias research and NHMRC-backed sensory augmentation projects.

Labs and collaborations involve multimodal sensory research and interdisciplinary teams in vision science.