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Dr. Richard Matheson Latto, M.A, Ph.D. Cambridge, F.B.Ps.S.

School of Psychology
Eleanor Rathbone Building,
Bedford Street South,
Liverpool,
L69 7ZA

Telephone:   +44 (0) 151 794 2956
Fax:   +44 (0) 151 794 2945
Email: latto@liverpool.ac.uk

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Appointments:

1967-68 Charles Kingsley Bye-Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge.
1968-73 University Demonstrator (Assistant Lecturer), Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.
1971 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Neuroanatomy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
1973-76 Senior Research Officer, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
1975-76 College Lecturer, University College, Oxford.
1976-84 Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool.
1984-   Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool.
1985-98 Head of Department, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool

Research interests:

The psychological and neural mechanisms of visual perception, particularly spatial perception. Current work centres on the role of binocular disparity in size judgements and the size distortions inherent in the synoptic views of objects provided by television and photography. Other interests include the psychology of the visual arts, investigating the relationship between mechanisms in visual perception and the selection and manipulation of images by artists.  

Other interests:

Member of the Board of Trustees of the British Psychological Society and Chair of its Psychology Education Board.

 

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