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Michael Francis Land FRS (born 12 April 1942)〔(LAND, Prof. Michael Francis ), ''Who's Who 2014'', A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014〕 is a British neurobiologist. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology in the Sussex Vision laboratory at the Sussex Centre for Neuroscience, University of Sussex, England. Land's research has been on different aspects of animal and human vision. His interests were in the optics of the eyes of marine animals, including scallops, shrimps and deep-water crustaceans. He also studied visual behaviour in spiders and insects, particularly during pursuit. This led to an interest in eye movement in animals and later in man. Land's group in Sussex is now mainly concerned with the role of eye movement in human activities such as driving, music reading and ball games. In 2000 for example Land and a colleague reported their finding that in cricket, within 200 milliseconds after a ball leaves a bowler's hand, the best batsmen will take their eyes off the ball and look ahead to the point where they have calculated it will bounce (see also Land & McLeod (2000) in bibliography). Other work is on the processing of visual information by the retinas of mosquitoes. ==Education== The son of Professor Frank William Land, from 1950 to 1960 Land attended Birkenhead School, a direct grant school, on the Wirral in Cheshire. From here he went to the University of Cambridge where he studied Zoology, graduating in 1963. A PhD in Neurophysiology at University College London (UCL) followed, completed in 1968. It was at UCL that Land began his research into human and animal vision. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael F. Land」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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