Michael F. Land, Date of Birth

Michael F. Land

British neurobiologist

Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1942

Profession: neuroscientist, neurobiologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Michael Francis Land FRS (born 12 April 1942) is a British neurobiologist.
He is currently an emeritus professor of neurobiology in the 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 is mainly concerned with the role of eye movement in human activities such as driving, music reading and ball games.
In 2000 Land and a colleague reported their finding that within 200 milliseconds after a ball leaves a cricket 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.