Vision Sciences Lab, Psychology Dept
Harvard University,
33 Kirkland Street, Rm 702
Cambridge, MA 02138
Ph: + 1 617 495 3844 (ext 3)
E-mail: ocarter@wjh.harvard.edu
1996-99
1996-99
2001
2002-05
B. A. Psychology & Anthropology. University of Melbourne, Australia.
B.Sc. Neuroscience. University of Melbourne, Australia.
B.Sc. (Honours) Physiology & Pharmacology University of Queensland, Australia.
PhD. Neuroscience, University of Queensland, Australia. - Prof Jack Pettigrew
2005-06 Teaching Fellow - Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, USA
2006- Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Vision Sciences Laboratory, Dept of Psychology,
Harvard University, USA. - Prof Ken Nakayama
2000 (Apr-Sept) Visiting Student - Dept of Psychology, University of California,
2003-04
San Diego. USA. - Prof. V. S. Ramachandran
Visiting Scientist - University Psychiatric Hospital Zurich,
Switzerland. - Dr Franz Vollenweider
2006- Affiliated Research Fellow - Martinos Center, Dept of Radiology, MGH/Harvard,
Boston, USA. - Dr Seppo Ahlfors
2006- Secretary - Association of the Scientific Study of Consciousness
2006- CJ Martin Overseas Training Fellow - Brain Research Institute, Melbourne
Australia. - Prof Graeme Jackson
2002 Australian Postgraduate Award (3.5 year postgraduate fellowship 2002-2005).
2003
2005
Heffter Research Institute Fellowship (covering research costs in Switzerland).
CJ Martin Overseas Training Fellowship (4 year postdoctoral fellowship 2006-2010 awarded by the Australian National Health & Medical Research Council).
2005 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

2001-03 Teaching Assistant - Sensory Physiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University
of Queensland, Australia
2001-03 Teaching Assistant - Circulatory Systems, School of Biomedical Sciences, University
of Queensland, Australia
2001-03 Teaching Assistant - Exercise Physiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University
2004 Guest Lecturer
of Queensland, Australia
- Drugs and Religion, School of History, Philosophy, Religion &
Classics, University of University of Queensland, Australia
2005 Teaching Fellow - Stimulant Drugs: Neurobiology to Ethics, Psychology
Department, Harvard University, - Provost Steven Hyman
2005 Teaching Fellow - Evolution of Human Nature, Faculty of Arts & Sciences,
Harvard University - Prof Marc Hauser & Prof Richard Wrangham
2006 Teaching Fellow - Brain, Drugs, and Society: Psychology Department,
Harvard University, - Provost Steven Hyman
Carter, O. & Pettigrew, J. (2003) A Common Oscillator for Perceptual Rivalries? Perception 32 (3):
295-305
Carter, O. L., Campbell, T. G., Liu, G. B. & Wallis, G. M. (2004) Contradictory influence of context on predominance during binocular rivalry. Clin Exp Optom 87 (3): 153-162
Carter, O. L., Pettigrew, J. D., Burr, D. C., Alais, D., Hasler, F. & Vollenweider, F. X. (2004) Psilocybin impairs high-level but not low-level motion perception. Neuroreport 15 (12): 1947-1951
Carter, O. L, Pettigrew, J. D., Hasler, F. & Wallis, G. M., Liu, G. B., Hell, D., & Vollenweider, F. X.
(2005) Modulating the rate and rhythmicity of perceptual rivalry alternations with the mixed 5-
HT2A and 5-HT1A agonist psilocybin. Neuropsychopharmacology 30: 1154-1162
Carter, O., Presti, D., Callistemon, C., Liu, G. B., Ungerer, Y. & Pettigrew, J. D. (2005) Meditation Alters
Perceptual Rivalry in Tibetan Buddhist Monks. Current Biology 15(11): R412-R413.
Carter, O. L., Burr, D. C., Pettigrew, J. D., Wallis, G. M., Hasler, F. & Vollenweider, F. X. (2005) Using psilocybin to investigate the relationship between attention, working memory and the Serotonin
1A/2A receptors. J Cog Neuroscience 17(10): 1497-150.
Wittmann, M., Carter, O., Grimberg, U., Hasler, F., Cahn, R., Hell, D., Flohr, H. & Vollenweider, F. X.
(2007) Effects of psilocybin on time perception and temporal control of behaviour in humans.
J Psychopharmacology 21(1): 50-64
Carter, O. & Cavanagh, P. (2007) Onset rivalry: Brief presentation isolates an early independent phase of perceptual competition PLoS ONE 2(4): e343
Carter, O., Hasler, F., Pettigrew, J.D., Wallis, G., Liu, G. B. & Vollenweider, F. X. Psilocybin links binocular rivalry switch rate to attention and subjective arousal levels in humans.
Psychopharmacology (In Press).
Snyder, J., Carter, O., Lee, S.K., Hannon, E. & Alain. C. Effects of Context on Auditory Stream
Segregation. J Exp Psychol: Hum Percept Perform (In Press).

Pettigrew, J. & Carter, O. (2002) Vision as motivation: interhemispheric oscillation alters perception.
Adv Exp Med Biol 508: 461-9
Pettigrew, J. D. & Carter, O. L. (2005) Perceptual Rivalry as an Ultradian Oscillation. In: Binocular
rivalry. (Eds.) Alais, D & Blake, R. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Pettigrew, J. D. & Carter, O. L., (2002). A shared oscillator for perceptual rivalries? Conference on
Binocular Rivalry and Perceptual Ambiguity , San Minato, Italy.
Carter, O. L., Pettigrew, J. D., Hasler, F., Wallis, G., Liu, G. B. & Vollenweider, F. X. (2004) Probing the Pharmacological Basis of Binocular Rivalry with the Hallucinogenic 5-HT1A/2A agonist
Psilocybin. Towards a Science of Consciousness. Tucson, USA ( - plenary lecture - )
Carter, O. L., Pettigrew, J. D., Burr, D., Alais, D., Hasler, F., Wallis, G, & Vollenweider, F. X. (2004)
Hallucinogens and Visual Perception. Towards a Science of Consciousness - Tuscon, USA.
( - concurrent session -)
Carter, O., Pettigrew, J., Burr, D., Alais, D., Hasler, F., & Vollenweider, F. X. (2004) Using the
Hallucinogen Psilocybin to Investigate Motion Perception in Humans. Vision Down Under - Frazer
Island, Australia
Carter, O. L., Pettigrew, J. D., Hasler, F., Wallis, G., Liu, G. B. & Vollenweider, F. X. (2005) The brainstem and binocular rivalry: The role of serotonin in arousing perceptual switching Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (9th).
- Caltech, USA
Carter, O. & Pettigrew, J. (2005) Meditation alters perceptual rivalry in Tibetan Buddhist Monks Society for Neuroscience Abst. No. 583.12 - Washington, USA
Carter, O., Stout, J., Koch, C. & Einhäuser. W. (2007) Pupil Dilation precedes and predicts perceptual rivalry switches: Suggesting perceptual selection shares the same noradrenergic mechanisms implicated in behavioral selection. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (11 th ).
Snyder JS, Carter OL, Lee S-K, Hannon EE, Rubin N, Nakayama K, Alain C. (2007) Long-lasting effects of temporal context in auditory and visual grouping. New England Sequencing and Timing
Conference .
Carter, O., Stout, J., Koch, C. & Einhäuser. W. (2007) Pupil Dilation precedes and predicts perceptual rivalry switches: Suggesting perceptual selection shares the same noradrenergic mechanisms implicated in behavioral selection. Vision Down Under Abst. No 83

Carter, O. & Pettigrew, J. (2002) Motion induced blindness is a form of perceptual rivalry with implications for bipolar disorder. Proc Aust Neurosicence Soc.
Abst. No. 13: 323.5 - Sydney,
Australia
Campbell, T., Carter, O. & Pettigrew, J. (2003) The Contradictory effects of context on binocular rivalry.
Proc Aust Neuroscience Soc Abst. No. 13: 323.5 - Melbourne, Australia
Carter, O. L., Collin, S. P., Hasler, F., Liu, G. B., Vollenweider, F. X. & Pettigrew, J. D. (2003) A doubleblind, placebo controlled Study of the Hallucinogenic 5-HT1A&2A receptor agonist psilocybin, on
Binocular rivalry rate and rhythmicity. Society For Neuroscience Abst. No. 179.15 –
New Orleans, USA
Carter, O.L., Hasler, F., Alais, D., Burr, D.C., Wallis, G., Liu, G.B., Pettigrew, J.D. & Vollenweider, F.X.
(2004) The effects of the hallucinogenic serotonin1A/2A agonist, psilocybin, on binocular rivalry and visual contrast detection thresholds in humans. Proc Aust Neuroscience Soc Abst. No. 152
Wittmann, M., Carter, O., Hasler, F., Grimberg, U., Flohr, H. & Vollenweider, F. X. (2004) Effects of
Psilocybin on Temporal Control of Behaviour in Humans. Cog Neuroscience Soc Abst. No. 42 - San
Fansisco, USA
Carter, O. L., Burr, D. C., Pettigrew, J. D., Hasler, F. & Vollenweider, F. X. (2005) Using psilocybin to investigate the relationship between attention, working memory and the Serotonin1A/2A receptors.
Vision Science Society Abst. No 685. - Sarassota, USA
Carter, O., Pettigrew, J., Hasler, F., Wallis, G. & Vollenweider, F. X (2006) Psilocybin slows binocular rivalry switching through serotonin modulation. Vision Science Society Abst. No. 144 -
Sarassota, USA
Carter, O. L., Burr, D. C., Pettigrew, J. D., & Vollenweider, F. X. (2006) Psilocybin causes a functional dissociation between attention and working memory tasks. Association for the Scientific Study of
Consciousness (10th). – Oxford, UK
Snyder JS, Carter OL, Lee S-K, Hannon EE, Alain C (2007). Effects of context on auditory stream segregation. Association for Research in Otolaryngology MidWinter Meeting . Abst. No. 913
Carter, O. & Cavanagh, P. (2007) Onset rivalry: Brief presentation isolates an early independent phase of perceptual competition. Vision Science Society Abst. No. 474
Carter, O., Konkle, T., Snyder, J., Wang, Q., Hayward, V., Moore, C. & Nakayama, K (2007) Bi-stable tactile stimulus shows perceptual rivalry exists across the senses. 8 th International Multisensory
Research Forum Abst. No.
Carter, O., Snyder, J., Rubin, N. & Nakayama, K (2007) Contrastive effects of prior context on visual and auditory grouping.
International Brain Research Organization Abst. No. POS-MON-166
Naber, M., Carter, O., Verstraten, F. (2007) Propagation of suppression waves. European Conference on
Visual Perception Abst. No. 70
Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany - Medical Psychology (2002).
Invited by Prof Martha Merrow
University of Zurich Psychiatric Hospital Switzerland - ?????
(2002).
Invited by Dr Franz Vollenweider

Harvard University, USA -Vision Sciences Laboratory (2003).
Invited by Prof Ken Nakayama
University of Queensland, Australia - School of Biomedical Sciences (2004).
Invited by Prof Jack Pettigrew
Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia - Psychiatric Unit (2004).
Invited by Dr Sanjay Nedam ???
Flinders University, Australia - Centre for Neuroscience (2005).
Invited by Prof Bill Blessing.
Harvard University, USA - Psychology Department Cog Brain ????
(2005)
Invited by Dr Laura Gibson
National Institute of Health, USA - ???? (2005)
Invited by Assoc ??
. Prof David Leopold
New York University, USA - ??????
(2005).
Invited by Prof Nava Rubin
Vanderbilt University, USA – Psychology Department ???
(2006).
Invited by Prof Randolph Blake
Bringham and women’s Hospital?? Harvard Medical School, USA – Visual Attention Lab (2006)
Invited by Prof Jeremy Wolfe
Melbourne University, Australia – Psychology Department (2007).
Invited by Dr Jason Forte
Maquarie University, Australia – Center for Cognitive Science (MACCS) (2007).
Invited by Prof Max ??
University of Sydney, Australia – Psychology Department (2007).
Invited by Dr Alex Holcombe
2002 - 04
2005 - Current
2005 - Current
2007 - Current
2003, 05, Current
Australian Neuroscience Society.
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
Vision Science Society
Serotonin Club
Society for Neurosciences:
American Journal of Psychiatry, Consciousness and Cognition, Journal of Vision, PlosOne, Vision
Research.