THE COLOUR GROUP (GREAT BRITAIN)

Colour Vision: Variance and Constancy

Newcastle, 28/29th September 2000

International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, 28th September

12.30 pm LUNCH - Jenner Room

TALKS/POSTERS McClintock Room

1.50 pm INTRODUCTION - AC Hurlbert & G Jordan

2.00 pm T. Sharpe "Total colour blindness: from genes to perception"

2.40 pm H. Jaegle "The distribution of red and green cones in the retinal mosaic"

3.20 pm B. Regan "Simulating the perceptual world of the anomalous trichromat"

3.40 pm TEA

4.00 pm J. Bowmaker "All primates are colour blind"

4.40 pm A. Derrington "A colour concept in male marmoset monkeys?"

5.20 pm B. Conway "Spatial structure of cone inputs to cortical colour cells in alert macaque V1"

5.40 pm - 6.40 pm POSTERS - WINE and CHEESE

A. Keen; C. Wehrhahn; A Wilkins; B Willmore & D Tolhurst; A. Logvinenko

7.45 pm DINNER - Leela's

FRIDAY, 29th September

9.00 am COFFEE and PASTRIES

9.10 am T. Wachtler "Chromatic interactions in human perception and monkey primary visual cortex"

9.50 am P. Lennie "Central mechanisms of chromatic adaptation"

10.40 am COFFEE

11.00 am D. Foster "Successes and failures of colour constancy in natural scenes"

11.40 am L. Maloney "Illuminant cues and surface colour perception"

12.20 pm J. Barbur "Mechanisms for colour defined motion perception".

1.10 pm LUNCH

2.15 pm Visit LIFE INTERACTIVE WORLD Exhibition (optional)