Michael Barnett-cowan
Assistant Professor
Department of kinesiology
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Michael Barnett works as a Assistant professor in Multisensory Brain and cognition Lab in University of Waterloo, Canada
Research Interest
The brain receives information about the environment from all the senses. To efficiently interact with the environment, the brain must make sense of this converging information in order to form a reliable and accurate percept with which to guide decision-making and behaviour. I am the Director of the Multisensory Brain and Cognition Lab, which seeks to determine how the brain integrates multisensory information. The lab has a specific interest in the vestibular (balance) system and determining how information about head movement and orientation is combined with the other senses to enable optimal object recognition, decision-making, and coordinated movement in the normal, injured, diseased, and aging brain.
Publications
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Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251), aac4716.
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Bedard, G., & Barnett-Cowan, M. (2016). Impaired timing of audiovisual events in the elderly. Experimental Brain Research, 234: 331-340.
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Lupo J., & Barnett-Cowan, M. (2016). Perceived Timing of a Postural Perturbation. Neuroscience Letters. 639: 167-172
