Jenny C. A. Read

This paper critiques a study claiming bees exhibit motivational trade-offs, finding methodological limitations and no support for the conclusion that bees can trade-off heat against reward.

This study examines how acute moderate alcohol consumption affects the speed of endogenous and exogenous attention shifts, finding that alcohol slows all types of attentional shifts equally.

The paper proposes a revised model of accommodative control that better predicts accommodative responses in clinical scenarios like presbyopia and cycloplegia by incorporating predictive mechanisms and gain adjustments.

The paper develops a neural control model of ocular accommodation that incorporates dual integral control and a Smith predictor to explain adaptation and oscillatory responses.

The paper develops a computational model of stereoscopic prey capture in praying mantises that reproduces key neurophysiological and behavioral features.

This study identifies disparity-tuned neurons in the praying mantis brain that support stereopsis, confirming the retinal disparity hypothesis and revealing novel feedback connections.

The paper tests whether linear-nonlinear models can explain V1 neuron responses to natural and unnatural stimuli, finding they fail to capture strong responses to binocularly correlated stimuli.

This study investigates how Dmax scales with element size in praying mantises, finding a power-law relationship without a lower bound, contrasting human findings, and presents two models to explain the results.

This study compares how visual noise affects contrast thresholds in humans and praying mantises, finding differences in masking effectiveness across spatial frequencies.

The paper shows that mixed-polarity stimuli in disparity discrimination tasks outperform same-polarity stimuli due to a stimulus artefact, not because of separate ON and OFF channels in stereopsis.

The paper shows that invisible noise can impair motion detection in insects but not mammals due to differences in early visual processing.