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Staff Profile

Dr Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza

Visiting Researcher

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  • Address: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    Faculty of Psychology
    Campus de Somosaguas,
    28223,Madrid,
    Spain
Research

Research Interest

My research is focused on the study of human visual system. I use a combination of human psychophysics and computational modelling techniques to uncover the functional characteristics of the neuronal mechanisms of visual functions including motion perception, spatial vision, and stereovision.

In particular, I am interested in the role that neuronal inhibitory mechanisms have on our visual perception. These mechanisms are very interesting because they can enhance the detection of the borders of an image, can help to segregate a figure from the background, in some situations they can improve or impair motion discrimination, and even can reverse the perceived direction of motion. These inhibitory mechanisms can also suppress the image of one eye avoiding double image in people with strabismus. Basically my research is basic science, but I am increasingly working in collaboration with clinicians to examine these inhibitory mechanisms in clinical populations as patients with schizophrenia, with epilepsy, or with depression. Our objective is to test these populations with simple visual tasks in order to develop new clinical tests that can be used to detect alterations in the inhibitory mechanisms of the brain.

Grants

2012-2015 Title: Spatial and functional characterisation of antagonistic centre-surround mechanisms in motion-vision. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (Spain). PSI2011-24491. (P.I. Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza)

2015-2017 Title: Visual inhibitory mechanisms in motion perception: Fundamental characteristics and clinical applications. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain). PSI2014-51960-P. (P.I. Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza)

2019-2021 Title: The binocular interaction in motion perception: implications on the activation of visual inhibitory mechanisms. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain). PGC2018-093406-B-I00.  (P.I. Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza)

2022-2025 Title: Spatiotemporal characterization of the stereoscopic anisotropy. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación  (Spain). PDI2021-122245NB-I00. (P.I. Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza) 



 
Teaching

My current position is Profesor Titular de Universidad at the Faculty of Psychology (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain).

I teach the following courses:

  1. Perception. Theory and practical classes: 190 hours/year. Number of students: 250/year second year Psychology students. Tutoring: 6 hours/week. For this course I have developed new practices that can be seen .
  2. Signal Analysis with applications to vision and audition. Theory and practical classes: 50 hours/year. Topics: Fourier analysis, linear systems, image processing, edge detection, sound processing, etc. Number of students: 20/year fifth year Psychology students. Tutoring: 6 hours/week. This course is included in the specialty area of Experimental Psychology. In the practical classes of this course I teach MATLAB programing.

 

Publications

  • Articles

    • Bachtoula O, Arranz-Paraiso S, Luna R, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Vision Research 2023, 208, 108222.
    • Luna R, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Vision Research 2020, 167, 60-69.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Vancleef K, Herbert W, Goodship N, Woodhouse M, Read JCA. . PLoS ONE 2020, 15(1), e0226822.
    • Read JCA, Wong ZY, Yek X, Wong YX, Bachtoula O, Llamas-Cornejo I, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics 2020, 40(6), 815-827.
    • Vancleef K, Serrano-Pedraza I, Sharp C, Slack G, Black C, Casanova T, Hugill J, Rafiq S, Burridge J, Puyat V, Ewane Enongue J, Gale H, Akotei H, Collier Z, Haggerty H, Smart K, Powell C, Taylor K, Clarke MP, Morgan G, Read JCA. . Translational Vision Science and Ophthalmology 2019, 8, 25.
    • Vancleef K, Read JCA, Herbert W, Goodship N, Woodhouse M, Serrano-Pedraza I. . PLoS One 2018, 13(7), e0201366.
    • Arranz-Paraiso S, Serrano-Pedraza I. . PLoS ONE 2018, 13(7), e0200151.
    • Luna R, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Journal of Vision 2018, 18(13), 17.
    • Nityananda V, Tarawneh G, Errington S, Serrano-Pedraza I, Read J. . Journal of Comparative Physiology A 2017, 203(1), 77-87.
    • Refaie R, Rushton P, McGovern P, Thompson D, Serrano-Pedraza I, Rankin KS, Reed M. . Bone and Joint Journal 2017, 99B(8), 1061-1066.
    • Vancleef K, Read JCA, Herbert W, Goodship N, Woodhouse M, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics 2017, 37(4), 507-520.
    • Tarawneh G, Nityananda V, Rosner R, Errington S, Herbert W, Cumming BG, Read JCA, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Scientific Reports 2017, 7, 3496.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Herbert W, Villa-Laso L, Widdall M, Vancleef K, Read JCA. . Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 2016, 57(3), 960-970.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Vancleef K, Read JCA. . Journal of Vision 2016, 16(14), 13.
    • Yazdani P, Serrano-Pedraza I, Whittaker RG, Trevelyan A, Read JC. . Journal of Vision 2015, 15(13).
    • Read JCA, Georgiou R, Brash C, Yazdani P, Whittaker R, Trevelyan A, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Journal of Vision 2015, 15(1), 5.
    • Chacon J, Castellanos MA, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Journal of Vision 2015, 15(16), 1-14.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Romero-Ferreiro V, Read JC, Diéguez-Risco T, Bagney A, Caballero-González M, Rodríguez-Torresano J, Rodríguez-Jiménez R. . Frontiers in Psychology 2014, 5, 1431.
    • Aguado L, Serrano-Pedraza I, García-Gutiérrez A. . Psicológica 2014, 35(2), 171-194.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Sierra-Vázquez V, Derrington AM. . Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Image Science, and Vision 2013, 30(6), 1119-1135.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Brash C, Read JCA. . Journal of Vision 2013, 13(11), 15.
    • Petheram TG, Bone M, Joyce TJ, Serrano-Pedraza I, Reed MR, Partington PF. . The Bone & Joint Journal 2013, 95-B(2), 173-176.
    • Savaridas T, Serrano-Pedraza I, Khan SK, Martin K, Malviya A, Reed MR. . Acta Orthopaedica 2013, 84(1), 40-43.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Gamonoso-Cruz MJ, Sierra-Vazquez V, Derrington AM. . Journal of Vision 2013, 13(11), 5.
    • Jameson SS, Rymaszewska M, James P, Serrano-Pedraza I, Muller SD, Hui AC, Reed MR. . Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: American Volume 2012, 94(17), 1554-1558.
    • Delicato LS, Serrano-Pedraza I, Suero M, Derrington AM. . Vision Research 2012, 62(1), 84-92.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Grady JP, Read JCA. . Journal of Vision 2012, 12(6), 24.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Manjunath V, Osunkunle O, Clarke MP, Read JCA. . Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 2011, 52(5), 2352-2364.
    • Sierra-Vazquez V, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Perception 2011, 40(8), 919-937.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Hogg EL, Read JCA. . Journal of Vision 2011, 11(2), 3.
    • Read JCA, Vaz XA, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Journal of Vision 2011, 11(12), 4.
    • Read JCA, Phillipson GP, Serrano-Pedraza I, Milner AD, Parker AJ. . PLoS One 2010, 5(9), e12608.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Read JCA. . Journal of Vision 2010, 10(12), -.
    • Aguado L, Serrano-Pedraza I, Rodriguez S, Roman FJ. . Spanish Journal of Psychology 2010, 13(2), 525-537.
    • Sierra-Vazquez V, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Image Science, and Vision 2010, 27(4), 781-796.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Derrington AM. . Journal of Vision 2010, 10(8), Article 18.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Phillipson GP, Read JCA. . Journal of Vision 2010, 10(3), 2.
    • Aguado L, Garcia-Gutierrez A, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Attention, Perception & Psychophysics 2009, 71(1), 9-25.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Read JCA. . Journal of Vision 2009, 9(4), 1-13.
    • Otero-Millan J, Troncoso XG, Macknik SL, Serrano-Pedraza I, Martinez-Conde S. . Journal of Vision 2008, 8, 1-18.
    • Sierra-Vazquez V, Serrano-Pedraza I. . Spanish Journal of Psychology 2007, 10(1), 3-19.
    • Alorda C, Serrano-Pedraza I, Campos-Bueno JJ, Sierra-Vazquez V, Montoya P. . Neuropsychologia 2007, 45(14), 3223-3233.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Goddard P, Derrington AM. . Journal of Vision 2007, 7(12), 1-14.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Sierra-Vazquez V. . Spanish Journal of Psychology 2006, 9(2), 249-262.
    • Sierra-Vazquez V, Serrano-Pedraza I, Luna D. . Perception 2006, 35(12), 1583-1609.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Vancleef K, Read J, Herbert W, Goodship N, Woodhouse M, Serrano-Pedraza I. . In: 39th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). 2016, Barcelona, Spain: Sage.
    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Arranz-Paraiso S, Romero-Ferreiro V, Read J. . In: 38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). 2015, Liverpool, UK: Sage Publications Ltd.
    • Read J, Vancleef K, Serrano-Pedraza I, Morgan G, Sharp C, Clarke M. . In: 38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). 2015, Liverpool, UK: Sage Publications Ltd.

  • Review

    • Serrano-Pedraza I, Clarke MP, Read JCA. . Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics 2011, 31(1), 45-55.