Contact information
Phone: 519-888-4567 x31382
Email: bptripp@uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: BRAIN Lab
Education
Post-doc,
McGill
University
(2009-2011)
PhD,
University
of
Waterloo
(2009)
MSc,
University
of
Toronto
(2002)
BSc,
University
of
Waterloo
(1997)
Research
Dr. Tripp is interested in visual and motor systems. These are immensely complex systems that take up about half the cortex. However, compared to more abstract cognitive functions, vision and motor control are highly accessible to both detailed experimentation and detailed modelling. Experimenters can exert fine control over the activity of visual neurons, and can record the results of motor computations (e.g. muscle activation) in fine detail. From a practical perspective, biological vision and motor systems vastly outperform artificial systems in many tasks, so that an improved understanding of these systems should lead to substantial technological advances. The central goal of the lab is to develop increasingly realistic computer/robotic models of the dorsal visual pathways and the networks that control eye and limb motion.