Every year in January at the Colour Group’s meeting on colour visual science, a distinguished vision expert is invited to deliver the Palmer Lecture.
The lecturer is presented with an illuminated certificate.
Past Palmer Lecturers
| 2004 | Prof John Mollon | The different perceptual ways in which we live |
| 2005 | Prof Jim Bowmaker | The evolution of colour vision: speciation, spectral sensitivity and ecology |
| 2006 | Françoise Viénot | From gloss scaling to gloss constancy |
| 2007 | David Foster | Spectral tuning of human trichromatic vision for object identification |
| 2008 | Pieter Walraven | History and theory of the chromatic Stiles-Crawford effect |
| 2009 | Ken Knoblauch | Partition and integration of chromatic information in the visual system |
| 2010 | Donald MacLeod | Are there phenomenal complementaries? |
| 2011 | Arne Valberg | Modelling neural mechanisms for colour discrimination |
| 2012 | Adam Reeves | Oddities of early dark adaptation |
| 2013 | John Barbur | Genes, Rayleigh matches and colour thresholds – how well can one describe variability in human colour vision? |
| 2014 | Steven K Shevell | Contrast from Perceptual, Not Retinotopic, Separation of Background Context |
| 2015 | Anya Hurlbert | The limits of colour constancy |
| 2016 | David Brainard | Psychophysics in the distal stimulus: color and material perception in the service of natural tasks |
| 2017 | Rhea Eskew | Mechanisms of color: detection, discrimination, and appearance |
| 2018 | Janus Kulikowski | Chips in daylight: hue perception and colour constancy |
| 2019 |
Karl
Gegenfurtner
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The dimensions of colour vision |
| 2020 | Paul Martin | Pathways to colour in the eye and brain |
| 2021 | Michael A. Webster | Compensation for Color Deficiencies |
| 2022 | Jay Neitz | Color vision as a model for testing ideas about how the brain works |
| 2023 | Sophie Wuerger | A journey through colour space |