Braddick, Oliver, 1944 - 2022

Oliver Braddick made major contributions to our understanding of the nature and development of human vision, with a particular focus on perception of depth and motion. His elegant experimental designs and theoretical insights have had an enduring impact on the field of visual perception. In a long and productive collaboration with his wife, Janette Atkinson, he developed ingenious new approaches to the study of visual development in babies, which extended to clinical investigations of visual consequences of diseases affecting the eye and brain. He also was an exemplary Professor and Head of Department at two of the premier experimental psychology departments in the UK, University College London (1998–2001) and Oxford (2001–2011).

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