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Christian Sinnott

Ph.D. in Cognitive and Brain Sciences He/him/his

Summary

I am a doctoral student working with Dr. Paul MacNeilage at the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno. My research focuses on understanding how both separate and joint head and eye movements made during everyday behavior can affect or bias future judgments of one's own motion. Understanding this process not only furthers our understanding of human self-motion perception, but can also inform development of vocational training paradigms and diagnosis and/or treatment of certain clinical conditions.

I earned my B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Oregon State University, where I investigated personality and academic differences between rural and non-rural college students. Currently, I am working on observing and statistically characterizing human head orientation and heading during everyday, as well as unconstrained behavior. When not in the lab, I enjoy weightlifting and playing music.

Research interests

Largely, I am interested in understanding how humans leverage sensory cues to perceive their own motion during everyday tasks like locomotion, in both natural and "less" natural environments (such as microgravity and underwater). My work currently focuses on characterization of human head orientation relative to gravity and heading during long (5 hour), unconstrained recording sessions, and using the statistics of these head movements to predict observed bias in human perception. This characterization involves use of multiple research paradigms including mobile eye tracking, mobile motion tracking using computer vision (e.g. visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping), computational modeling, and psychophysics. 

Publications

  • Hausamann, P., Sinnott, C.B., Daumer, M., MacNeilage, P.R. (2021). . Scientific Reports, 11 (1), 1-12. Nature Publishing Group.
  • Binaee, P., Sinnott, C., Capurro, K.J., MacNeilage, P., Lescroart, M.D. (2021). . ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1-4. 
  • Shankar, B., Sinnott, C., Binaee, K., Lescroart, M.D., MacNeilage, P. (2021). . ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1-4. 
  • Ramanujam, S., Sinnott, C., Shankar, B., Halow, S.J., Szekely, B., MacNeilage, P., Binaee, K. (2021). . ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1-4. 
  • MacNeilage, P., Sinnott, C., Hausamann, P. (2020). . Journal of Vision 20 (11), 1492-1492. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
  • Hausamann, P., Sinnott, C., MacNeilage, P.R. (2020). . ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1-5.
  • Sinnott, C., Liu, J., Matera, C., Halow, S., Jones, A.E., Moroz, M., Mulligan, J., Crognale, M., Folmer, E., MacNeilage, P. (2019). . 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 1-9.
  • Sinnott, C., Liu, J., Matera, C., Halow, S., Jones, A., Moroz, M., Mulligan, J., Crognale, M., Folmer, E., MacNeilage, P. (2019). . Journal of Vision 19 (10), 302a-302a. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
  • MacNeilage, P.R., Nguyen, L., Sinnott, C. (2019). . Journal of Vision 19 (10), 147d-147d. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
  • Sinnott, C., MacNeilage, P. (2019). . Journal of Vision 19 (8), 53-53. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
  • Sinnott, C., Dang, T., Papachristos, C., Alexis, K., MacNeilage, P. (2018). . Journal of Vision 18 (10), 41-41. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
  • Sinnott, C.B. (2016). .
  • Sinnott, C.B., Lien, M.C. (2014). 

Education

  • M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2016, Oregon State University
  • B.A. in Psychology, 2014, Oregon State University