Anya  Hurlbert MD PhD
Psychology, Brain and Behaviour Group, and                   
Institute of Neuroscience
Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Past Conferences

• Colour constancy
  • the phenomenon
  • in the laboratory
  • as a computational problem
  • and mutual illumination
• Auditory-visual interactions
  • in motion perception, studied with psychophysics, EEG and MEG
• Image segmentation
• 3D shape and colour interactions
  • The chromatic Mach Card mpeg
• Perceptual learning
• Non-invasive imaging of the human brain
  • Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
• Binocular vision with cataracts
• Specular highlights
  • Recognition and Percepual Use of Specular Highlights (Hurlbert, Cumming, Parker, ARVO 1991) abstract pdf poster pdf
  • Local Cues from Specular Highlight Motion influence Global Shape Perception (Hurlbert, Cumming, Parker, ECVP 1992) abstract pdf
  • Constraints of Specularity Motion on Glossiness and Shape Perception (Hurlbert, Cumming, Parker, ECVP 1991) abstract pdf
  • Movie illustrating shape-from-highlight-motion (1995) mpeg
• Art and vision science

Selected Publications

Ling, Y., & Hurlbert, A. (2004) Color and size interactions in a real 3D object similarity task. Journal of Vision 4(9):721-734. http://journalofvision.org/4/9/5/

Hurlbert, A. and Wolf, K. (2003) Color contrast: a contributory mechanism to color constancy. Progress in Brain Research 144:147-160. pdf

Hurlbert A. (2003) Colour vision: Primary visual cortex shows its influence. Current Biology 13:R270-R272.

Hurlbert A. (2001) Trading faces. Nature Neuroscience 4(1):3-5.

Bloj, MG, D Kersten, and AC Hurlbert (1999) Perception of three-dimensional shape influences colour perception through mutual illumination. Nature 402: 877-879.

Hurlbert, AC (1999) Colour vision: Is colour constancy real? Current Biology Vol.9, No.15, pp.R558-R561.

Hurlbert, A.C. (1998) Computational Models of Colour Constancy. In Perceptual Constancy: Why things look as they do, edited by V. Walsh and J. Kulikowski, Cambridge University Press, pp. 283-322.

Hurlbert AC, Bramwell DI, Heywood C, Cowey A (1998) Discrimination of cone contrast changes as evidence for colour constancy in cerebral achromatopsia. Exp. Brain Res. Vol. 123, pp. 136-144.

Hurlbert, A.C. (1998) ``Illusions and reality-checking on the small screen.'' Guest Editorial. Perception 27: 6, 633-636.

Moeller, P. and Hurlbert, A.C. (1997) Interactions between colour and motion in image segmentation. Current Biology 7:2 105-111.

Hurlbert, A.C. (1997). Colour vision: A Primer. Current Biology 7:7 R400-R402.

Moeller, P. and Hurlbert, A.C. (1997) Motion edges and regions guide image segmentation by colour. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 264 1571-1577.

Bramwell, D.I. and Hurlbert, A.C. (1996) Measurements of colour constancy using a forced choice matching technique. Perception, 25, 229-241.

Moeller, P. and Hurlbert, A.C. (1996) Psychophysical evidence for fast, region-based segmentation processes in motion and colour. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 93, 7421-7426.

Hurlbert, A. C. (1996). Colour vision: Putting it in context. Current Biology 6:11 1381-1384.

[Full Publication List]

The Colour Group (GB)

Newcastle Vision Meeting: Colour Vision and its Variation

International Centre for Life

September 28-29 2000

Provisional programme

Map of Newcastle, with conference venue and hotels marked