January Colour Vision Meeting 2026 | London, UK

January Colour Vision Meeting 2026 | London, UK

We’re looking forward to seeing you in the new year for our annual Colour Vision meeting! Our one-day meeting programme consists of 8 research presentations and a Palmer Lecture. Coffee, lunch, Halstead-Granville Tea and post-meeting drinks and food all included with registration fees:

Member £50
Student Member £25
Non-member £75
Student Non-member £35

Why not renew or join our 2026 membership to benefit from the Member rates for this meeting?
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Colour Vision Meeting will be held at:
City St George’s, University of London
Northampton Square, London
EC1V 0HB

Booking link:
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Programme

10:00 – Tea, Coffee and Registration

10:20 – Welcome

10:30 – Colour vocabulary loss and the ageing eye
Akvile Sinkeviciute Northeastern University London

11:00 – Individual variations in colour naming
Anya Hurlbert Newcastle University

11:30 – Beyond spectra: Cone-based representations of surface colour in natural scenes
Hamed Karimipour University of Manchester

12:00 – A metric for color space: Beating the curse of dimensionality
Karl Gegenfurtner University of Giessen

12:30 – Lunch

14:00 – An ecological model of correspondences between colour and pitch
Yihui Lu University of Southampton

14:30Palmer Lecture: The development of colour perception
Anna Franklin University of Sussex

15:30 – Halstead-Granville Tea

16:00 – Characterising cortical colour tuning with steady-state visually evoked potentials (SSVEPs)
Ana Rozman University of Sussex

16:30 – Asymmetric hue-chroma discrimination around orange and purple: insights from psychophysics, deep learning, and neuroimaging
Takuma Morimoto University of Oxford

17:00 – Spatio-chromatic boundary of the visibility – how many pixels can we see?
Rafal Mantiuk University of Cambridge

17:30 – Food and drink reception