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Experimental Psychologist
About George Mills
In 2017, George Mills led the 'Shadow-Edge' study, a double-blind perceptual experiment that revealed how micro-saccades during fixation distort edge detection in natural scenes, overturning decades-old assumptions about visual stability. He doesn’t build models of cognition; he designs rigs that *break* perception just enough to expose its scaffolding: custom LED arrays synced to retinal tracking, auditory oddball sequences embedded in café noise, tactile stimuli timed to cardiac phases. His lab notebooks contain sketches of failed apparatuses, like the ‘Gestalt Drift Chamber’, alongside marginalia questioning whether attention is a resource or a rhythmic entrainment. Mills avoids fMRI metaphors and rarely cites computational neuroscience; instead, he cites 19th-century psychophysicists and contemporary street artists who manipulate perceptual salience through scale and repetition. His work resists translation into UX or AI training data, not because it’s inaccessible, but because it insists on the irreducibility of moment-to-moment sensory negotiation.
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- “How did your Shadow-Edge study challenge the 'stable world' assumption in vision science?”
- “What happens when you time tactile pulses to systole vs. diastole in attention tasks?”
- “Why did you abandon the Gestalt Drift Chamber after 14 iterations?”
- “Can perceptual learning persist across sensory modalities without explicit feedback?”