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MEETINGS FOR 2009-2010

Wednesday 6 January 2010

Vision Meeting and Palmer Lecture
Institute of Ophthalmology
Bath Street, London, EC1V 9EL


A programme of papers on current reseach in the colourful aspects of vision

Plus the 2010 Palmer Lecturer by Prof Donald MacLeod
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Ca, USA
see:  http://psy2.ucsd.edu/~dmacleod/res.htm


PROGRAMME

9:30         COFFEE & REGISTRATION

10.00       Categorical perception and thresholds for colour discrimination across languages - what role does language play?
                    Debi  Roberson University of Essex

10.30       Creating greyscale versions of coloured images: human and machine
                    Marina Bloj University of Bradford

11.00      Palmer Lecture 2010: Are there phenomenal complementaries?
                    Donald McLeod  UC San Diego

12.00      Colour and orientation integrate in processing bimodal stimuli
                    Galina Paramei  Liverpool  Hope

12.30      LUNCH

13.30      Cambridge Research Systems Sponsored Lecture 2010: Telling colours apart
                    John Mollon  University of Cambridge

14.30      Colour appearance in a changing world
                    Hannah Smithson  University of Durham

15.00      Quantitative assessment of commercial filter 'aids' for red-green colour defectives
                    Jack Moreland  University of Keele 

15.30       GRANVILLE-HALSTEAD TEA

16.00      Neural coding mechanisms in color vision and the influences of natural scene statistics and context
                    Thomas Wachtler  LMU Munich                              

16.30      Effects of light spectrum on the colours of art paintings
                    Sergio Nascimento University of Braga, Portugal

17.00      Estimation of Individual Cone Sensitivities based on Colour Matching Functions
                    Graham Finlayson  University of East Anglia

17.30      END


REGISTRATION
The fee including lunch is £16 for Colour Group members, and £20 for non-members.
The fee without lunch is £7 for members and £10 for non-members.
Cheques made to The Colour Group (GB).
Send the registration form and cheque to
        Alex Halliwell
        School of Psychology
        Eleanore Rathbone Building
        Bedford Street South
        Liverpool, L69 7ZA
so that it arrives by January 4th.
For further information contact s.m.wuerger@liverpool.ac.uk.


ABSTRACTS
The abstracts are available as a PDF file here.




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