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Foster, D.H. (2011). Color constancy. Vision Research   51, 674-700. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2010.09.006. Download PDF of manuscript   Download PDF of manuscript   Email author 


Marín-Franch, I., & Foster, D.H. (2010). Number of perceptually distinct surface colors in natural scenes. Journal of Vision, 10(9):9 
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Foster, D.H. (2010). Chromatic function of the cones. In D.A. Dartt, J.C. Besharse, R. Dana, & P. Bex (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Eye (pp. 266-274). Oxford: Academic Press.
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Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2010). Tracking categorical surface colour across illuminant changes in natural scenes. In: CGIV 2010 (pp. 289-292). Joensuu, Finland: Society for Imaging Science and Technology.   Download PDF


Baraas, R.C., Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2010). Color constancy of red-green dichromats and anomalous trichromats. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 51 (4), 2286-2293.
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Carroll, J., Baraas, R.C., Wagner-Schuman, M., Rha, J., Siebe, C.A., Sloan, C., Tait, D.M., Thompson, S., Morgan, J.I.W., Neitz, J., Williams, D.R., Foster, D.H., & Neitz, M. (2009). Cone photoreceptor mosaic disruption associated with Cys203Arg mutation in the M-cone opsin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (49), 20948-20953.  Download PDF from PNAS   Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Marín-Franch, I., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2009). Approaching ideal observer efficiency in using color to retrieve information from natural scenes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A - Optics Image Science and Vision, 26 (11), B14-B24. Download PDF

Żychaluk, K., & Foster, D.H. (2009). Model-free estimation of the psychometric function. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71 (6), 1414-1425.   Email author   Download PDF

Reeves, A.J., Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2008). Color constancy: Phenomenal or projective? Perception & Psychophysics, 70 (2), 219-228.  Download PDF of manuscript   Email author   Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (2008). Color Appearance. In: A.I. Basbaum, A. Kaneko, G.M. Shepherd, G. Westheimer, T.D. Albright, R.H. Masland, P. Dallos, D. Oertel, S. Firestein, G.K. Beauchamp, M.C. Bushnell, J.H. Kaas, & E. Gardner (Eds.), The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference, Vol. 2, Vision II  (pp. 119-132). San Diego: Academic Press.  Email author    See The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference

Marín-Franch, I., & Foster, D.H. (2008). Distribution of information within and across colour spaces. In: CGIV 2008 (pp. 303-306). Terrassa, Spain: Society for Imaging Science and Technology.   Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Żychaluk, K. (2008). Is there a better non-parametric alternative to von Kries scaling? In: CGIV 2008 (pp. 41-44). Terrassa, Spain: Society for Imaging Science and Technology.   Download PDF

Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2008). Effect of spatial uncertainty and familiarity on memory for surface colour in natural scenes and Mondrian patterns. In: CGIV 2008 (pp. 223-226). Terrassa, Spain: Society for Imaging Science and Technology.  Download PDF

Valero, E.M., Nieves, J.L., Nascimento, S.M.C., Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2007). Recovering spectral data from natural scenes with an RGB digital camera and colored filters. Color Research and Application, 32 (5), 352-360.    Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Amano, K., Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, M.J. (2007). Frequency of metamerism in natural scenes. Optics and Photonics News: Optics in 2007 - Research Highlights, 18 (12), 47.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Żychaluk, K. (2007). Nonparametric estimates of biological transducer functions. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 24 (4), 49-58.  Download PDF

Baraas, R.C., Carroll, J., Gunther, K.L., Chung, M.N., Williams, D.R., Foster, D.H., & Neitz, M. (2007). Adaptive optics retinal imaging reveals S-cone dystrophy in tritan color-vision deficiency. Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision, 24 (5), 1438-1447.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Amano, K., Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, M.J. (2006). Frequency of metamerism in natural scenes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics, Image Science, and Vision, 23 (10), 2359-2372.  Download PDF

Marín-Franch, I., & Foster, D.H. (2006). Estimating the information available from coloured surfaces in natural scenes. In: CGIV 2006 (pp. 44-47). Leeds, UK: The Society for Imaging Science and Technology, Springfield, VA.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2006). Color constancy in natural scenes explained by global image statistics. Visual Neuroscience, 23 (3-4), 341-349.  Download PDF

Amano, K., Foster, D.H., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2006). Color constancy in natural scenes with and without an explicit illuminant cue. Visual Neuroscience, 23 (3-4), 351-356.  Download PDF

Baraas, R.C., Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2006). Anomalous trichromats' judgments of surface color in natural scenes under different daylights. Visual Neuroscience, 23 (3-4), 629-635.  Download PDF

Aldaba, M.A., Linhares, J.M.M., Pinto, P.D., Nascimento, S.M.C., Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2006). Visual sensitivity to color errors in images of natural scenes. Visual Neuroscience, 23 (3-4), 555-559.  Download PDF

Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2005). Minimalist surface-colour matching. Perception, 34, 1009-1013.  Download PDF   Request proof PDF

Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2005). Chromatic and achromatic information preserved in natural scenes under illuminant changes. 10th Congress of the International Colour Association (pp. 69-72). Granada, SpainDownload PDF

Foster, D.H., Nascimento, S.M.C., & Amano, K. (2005). Information limits on identification of natural surfaces by apparent colour. Perception, 34, 1003-1008.  Download PDF   Request proof PDF

Nascimento, S.M.C., de Almeida, V.M.N., Fiadeiro, P.T., & Foster, D.H. (2005). Effect of scene complexity on colour constancy with real three-dimensional scenes and objects. Perception, 34 (7), 947-950. Download PDF   Request PDF

Nascimento, S.M.C., Foster, D.H., & Amano, K. (2005). Psychophysical estimates of the number of spectral-reflectance basis functions needed to reproduce natural scenes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision, 22 (6), 1017-1022.   Download PDF

Oxtoby, E.K., & Foster, D.H. (2005). Perceptual limits on low-dimensional models of Munsell reflectance spectra. Perception, 34, 961-966.  Download PDF 
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Amano, K., & Foster, D.H. (2004). Colour constancy under simultaneous changes in surface position and illuminant. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 271, 2319-2326.   Download PDF

Nascimento, S.M.C., de Almeida, V.M.N., Fiadeiro, P.T., & Foster, D.H. (2004). Minimum-variance cone-excitation ratios and the limits of relational color constancy. Visual Neuroscience, 21, 337-340.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Nascimento, S.M.C., & Amano, K. (2004). Information limits on neural identification of colored surfaces in natural scenes. Visual Neuroscience, 21, 331-336.  Download PDF

Baraas, R.C., Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2004). Protanopic observers show nearly normal color constancy with natural reflectance spectra. Visual Neuroscience, 21, 347-351.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (2003). Does colour constancy exist? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7 (10), 439-443.  Download MS PDF   Proof PDF

Amano, K., Foster, D.H., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2003). Red-green colour deficiency and colour constancy under orthogonal-daylight changes. In: J.D. Mollon, J. Pokorny, & K. Knoblauch (Eds.), Normal and Defective Colour Vision (pp. 225-230). Oxford: Oxford University Press.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2003). Tritanopic colour constancy under daylight changes? In: J.D. Mollon, J. Pokorny, & K. Knoblauch (Eds.), Normal & Defective Colour Vision (pp. 218-224). Oxford: Oxford University Press.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (2002). Automatic repeated-loess decomposition of data consisting of sums of oscillatory curves. Statistics and Computing, 12, 339-351.  Download PDF and PDF erratum

Foster, D.H., & Gilson, S.J. (2002). Recognizing novel three-dimensional objects by summing signals from parts and views. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 269, 1939-1947.  Download PDF
[See Research Focus in TiCS:  Hayward, W.G. (2003). After the viewpoint debate: where next in object recognition? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7 (10), 425-427.]

Foster, D.H., & Savage, C.J. (2002). Uniformity and asymmetry of rapid curved-line detection explained by parallel categorical coding of contour curvature. Vision Research, 42, 2163-2175.  Download PDF

Linnell, K.J., & Foster, D.H. (2002). Scene articulation: dependence of illuminant estimates on number of surfaces. Perception, 31, 151-159.  Download PDF  Request PDF

Nascimento, S.M.C., Ferreira, F.P., & Foster, D.H. (2002). Statistics of spatial cone-excitation ratios in natural scenes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision, 19, 1484-1490.  Download PDF

Doherty, L.M., & Foster, D.H. (2001). Reference frame for rapid visual processing of line orientation. Spatial Vision, 14 (2), 121-137.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (2001). Natural groups of transformations underlying apparent motion and perceived object shape and color. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 665-668.  Download HTML (Netscape 7.0)   Download MSWord 2000

Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2001a). How temporal cues can aid colour constancy. Color Research and Application, 26 (suppl.), S180-S185.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Amano, K., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (2001b). Colour constancy from temporal cues: better matches with less variability under fast illuminant changes. Vision Research, 41 (3), 285-293.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Nascimento, S.M.C., Amano, K., Arend, L., Linnell, K.J., Nieves, J.L., Plet, S., & Foster, J.S. (2001). Parallel detection of violations of color constancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98 (14), 8151-8156. Download PDF   Download PDF 

Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, D.H. (2001). Detecting changes of spatial cone-excitation ratios in dichoptic viewing. Vision Research, 41, 2601-2606.    Download PDF and PDF erratum

Caruana, P.A., Davies, M.B., Weatherby, S.J.M., Williams, R., Haq, N., Foster, D.H., & Hawkins, C.P. (2000). Correlation of MRI lesions with visual psychophysical deficit in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. Brain, 123, 1471-1480.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Savage, C.J., Mannan, S., & Ruddock, K.H. (2000). Asymmetries of saccadic eye movements in oriented-line-target search. Vision Research, 40 (1), 65-70.  Download PDF

Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, D.H. (2000). Relational color constancy in achromatic and isoluminant images. Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision, 17 (2), 225-231.  Download PDF

Thomson, M.G.A., Foster, D.H., & Summers, R.J. (2000). Human sensitivity to phase perturbations in natural images: a statistical framework. Perception, 29 (9), 1057-1069.  Download PDF   Request PDF

Wagemans, J., Van Gool, L., Foster, D.H., & Lamote, C. (2000). Minimal information to determine affine shape equivalence. Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, 26, 443-468.  Download PDF

Doherty, L.M., & Foster, D.H. (1999). Limitations of rapid parallel processing in the detection of long and short oriented line targets. Spatial Vision, 12, 485-497.  Download PDF 

Foster, D.H., & Westland, S. (1998a). Multiple groups of orientation-selective visual mechanisms underlying rapid orientated-line detection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 265, 1605-1613.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Westland, S. (1998b). Application of the repeated loess method to psychophysical analysis. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 42 (pp. 500-501).

Foster, D.H., & Bischof, W.F. (1997). Bootstrap estimates of the statistical accuracy of thresholds obtained from psychometric functions. Spatial Vision, 11, 135-139.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Nascimento, S.M.C., Craven, B.J., Linnell, K.J., Cornelissen, F.W., & Brenner, E. (1997). Four issues concerning colour constancy and relational colour constancy. Vision Research, 37, 1341-1345.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Nascimento, S.M.C., & Linnell, K.J. (1997). Colour constancy from colour relations in the normal and colour-deficient observer. In: C. Dickinson, Murray, I., Carden, D. (Ed.) John Dalton's Colour Vision Legacy (pp. 453-461). London: Taylor & Francis.

Linnell, K.J., & Foster, D.H. (1997). Space-average scene colour used to extract illuminant information. In: C. Dickinson, I. Murray, & D. Carden (Eds.), John Dalton's Colour Vision Legacy (pp. 501-509). London: Taylor & Francis.

Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, D.H. (1997a). Detecting natural changes of cone-excitation ratios in simple and complex coloured images. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 264, 1395-1402.  Download PDF

Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, D.H. (1997b). Dependence of colour constancy on the time-course of illuminant changes. In: C. Dickinson, Murray, I., Carden, D. (Ed.) John Dalton's Colour Vision Legacy (pp. 491-499). London: Taylor & Francis.

Nascimento, S.M.C., Foster, D.H., & Mckee, P. (1997). Binary masks yielding Gaussian light distributions in Maxwellian view. Vision Research, 37, 2975-2979.  Download PDF

Thomson, M.G.A., & Foster, D.H. (1997). Role of second- and third-order statistics in the discriminability of natural images. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 14, 2081-2090.  Download PDF

Kukkonen, H.T., Foster, D.H., Wood, J.R., Wagemans, J., & Van Gool, L. (1996). Qualitative cues in the discrimination of affine-transformed minimal patterns. Perception, 25, 195-206.  Download PDF

Linnell, K.J., & Foster, D.H. (1996). Dependence of relational colour constancy on the extraction of a transient signal. Perception, 25, 221-228.  Download PDF

Nascimento, S.M.C., & Foster, D.H. (1996). Invariant signals from coloured scenes under illuminant transformations. RECPAD'96 8th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (pp. 359-365). Guimarães, Portugal: APRP, Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition.

Foster, D.H., & Linnell, K.J. (1995). Evidence for relational colour constancy in red-green colour-deficient human observers. Journal of Physiology, 485.P, 23P-24P.

Foster, D.H., & Westland, S. (1995). Orientation contrast vs orientation in line-target detection. Vision Research, 35, 733-738.  Download PDF

Hardy, K.J., Fisher, C., Heath, P., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1995). Comparison of colour discrimination and electroretinography in evaluation of visual pathway dysfunction in aretinopathic IDDM patients. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 79, 35-37.  Download PDF

Hardy, K.J., Scarpello, J.H.B., & Foster, D.H. (1995). Relation between blood glucose changes over 3 months and colour discrimination in insulin dependent diabetic patients without retinopathy. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 79 (p. 300).  Download PDF

Hardy, K.J., Scase, M.O., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1995). Effect of short term changes in blood glucose in visual pathway function in insulin dependent diabetes. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 79, 38-41.  Download PDF

Schofield, A.J., & Foster, D.H. (1995). Artificial neural networks simulating visual texture segmentation and target detection in line-element images. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 350 (1334), 401-412.   Download PDF

Westland, S., & Foster, D.H. (1995). Optimized model of oriented-line-target detection using vertical and horizontal filters. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 12, 1617-1622.  Download PDF

Ferraro, M., & Foster, D.H. (1994). Elements of a fuzzy geometry for visual space. In: Y.-L. O, Toet, A., Foster, D. H., Heijmans, H. J. A. M., Meer, P. (Ed.) Shape in Picture. Mathematical Description of Shape in Grey-level Images (pp. 333-342). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.   Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1994). Classical and fuzzy differential methods in shape analysis. In: Y.-L. O, Toet, A., Foster, D., Heijmans, H. J. A. M., Meer, P. (Ed.) Shape in Picture. Mathematical Description of Shape in Grey-level Images (pp. 319-332). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.    Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Nascimento, S.M.C. (1994). Relational colour constancy from invariant cone-excitation ratios. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 257, 115-121.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Simmons, D.R. (1994). Viewpoint-invariance of contour-curvature discrimination over extended performance levels. Spatial Vision, 8 (1), 45-55.  Download PDF

Hardy, K.J., Craven, B., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1994). Extent and duration of practice effects on performance with the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue test. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 14, 306-309.  Download PDF

Hardy, K.J., Scarpello, J.H.B., Foster, D.H., & Moreland, J.D. (1994). Effect of diabetes associated increases in lens optical density on colour discrimination in insulin dependent diabetes. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 78, 754-756.  Download PDF

O, Y.-L., Toet, A., Foster, D.H., Heijmans, H.J.A.M., & Meer, P. (1994). Shape in Picture. Mathematical Description of Shape in Grey-level Images. (Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Phillips, M.L., Foster, D.H., Honan, W.P., Edgar, G.K., & Heron, J.R. (1994). Optic neuritis. Differential losses of luminance and chromatic function near a scotoma. Brain, 117, 767-773.   Download PDF

Wagemans, J., De Troy, A., Van Gool, L., Wood, J.R., & Foster, D.H. (1994). Affine shape equivalence. In: F. Dillen, Van de Woestijne, I., Verstraelen, L. (Ed.) Geometry and Topology of Submanifolds VI (pp. 307-314). Singapore: World Scientific.

Ferraro, M., & Foster, D.H. (1993). C1 fuzzy manifolds. International Journal for Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 54, 99-106.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Simmons, D.R., & Cook, M.J. (1993). The cue for contour-curvature discrimination. Vision Research, 33, 329-341.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Wagemans, J. (1993). Viewpoint-invariant Weber fractions and standard contour-curvature discrimination. Biological Cybernetics, 70 (1), 29-36.  Download PDF

Honan, W.P., Heron, J.R., Foster, D.H., Edgar, G.K., & Scase, M.O. (1993). Abnormalities of visual function in hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 114, 188-192.  Download PDF

Craven, B.J., & Foster, D.H. (1992). An operational approach to colour constancy. Vision Research, 32, 1359-1366.  Download PDF   

Foster, D.H., Craven, B.J., & Sale, E.R.H. (1992). Immediate colour constancy. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 12, 157-160.  Download PDF

Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J., Scase, M.O., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1992). Detection of colour vision abnormalities in uncomplicated type 1 diabetic patients with angiographically normal retinas. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 76, 461-464.  Download PDF

Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J.R., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1992). Failure of many ophthalmologists to use lasers safely. Quality in Health Care, 1, 168-170.

Simmons, D.R., & Foster, D.H. (1992). Segmenting textures of curved-line elements. In: G.A. Orban, & H.-H. Nagel (Eds.), Artificial and Biological Vision Systems (pp. 324-349). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.  Download PDF

Ferraro, M., & Foster, D.H. (1991). Almost equivalence of combinatorial and distance processes for discrimination in multielement images. Biological Cybernetics, 64, 315-319.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1991a). Fine-grain motion perception: spatial and temporal limits and local interactions. In: . Channels in the Visual Nervous System: Neurophysiology Psychophysics and Models,, pp.

Foster, D.H. (1991b). Inherited and Acquired Colour Vision Deficiencies: Fundamental Aspects and Clinical Studies. Vision and Visual Dysfunction (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press.

Foster, D.H. (1991c). Operating on spatial relations. In: R.J. Watt (Ed.) Pattern Recognition by Man and Machine (pp. 50-68). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Bischof, W.F. (1991). Thresholds from psychometric functions: superiority of bootstrap to incremental and probit variance estimators. Psychological Bulletin, 109, 152-159.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Ward, P.A. (1991a). Asymmetries in oriented-line detection indicate two orthogonal filters in early vision. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 243, 75-81.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Ward, P.A. (1991b). Horizontal-vertical filters in early vision predict anomalous line-orientation identification frequencies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 243, 83-86.  Download PDF

Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1991a). Does laser treatment for diabetic retinopathy cause permanent abnormalities of colour vision in ophthalmologists? Diabetic Medicine, 8 (p. 42A).

Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J.R., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1991b). Laser safety and ophthalmologists. The Lancet, 338 (p. 1338).

Hardy, K.J., Scase, M.O., Lipton, J., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1991). Colour vision tests in diabetics without retinopathy. Diabetes, 40 (p. 332A).

Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J., Scase, M.O., Scarpello, J.H.B., & Foster, D.H. (1991). Diabetes and retinal function. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 75 (p. 191).  Download PDF

Scase, M.O., Foster, D.H., Honan, W.P., & Heron, J.R. (1991). A case of unilateral blue colour vision loss. In: B. Drum, Moreland, J. D. and Serra, A. (Ed.) Colour Vision Deficiencies X (pp. 441-450). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Edgar, G.K., Foster, D.H., Honan, W.P., Heron, J.R., & Snelgar, R.S. (1990). Optic neuritis: variations in temporal modulation sensitivity with retinal eccentricity. Brain, 113, 487-496.  Download PDF

Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J., Scase, M.O., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1990a). Colour vision abnormalities in insulin-dependent diabetic patients with little or no retinopathy. Diabetologia, 33 (p. A88).

Hardy, K.J., Lipton, J., Scase, M.O., Foster, D.H., & Scarpello, J.H.B.S. (1990b). Young people with insulin-dependent diabetes and angiographically normal retinae have marked abnormalities of colour vision. Diabetic Medicine, 7 (p. 2A).

Honan, W.P., Heron, J.R., Foster, D.H., Edgar, G.K., Scase, M.O., & Collins, M.F. (1990). Visual loss in multiple sclerosis and its relation to previous optic neuritis, disease duration and clinical classification. Brain, 113, 975-987.  Download PDF

Scase, M.O., Foster, D.H., Honan, W.P., Heron, J.R., Gulliford, M.C., & Scarpello, J.H.B. (1990). Abnormalities in hue discrimination revealed with very brief stimuli in diabetes mellitus and in optic neuritis. Clinical Vision Sciences, 6, 49-57. Download PDF

Edgar, G.K., Foster, D.H., Honan, W.P., Heron, J.R., & Snelgar, R.S. (1989). Impaired temporal modulation sensitivity at localized retinal sites in demyelinating disease. In: J.J. Kulikowski, Dickinson, C. M. , Murray, I. J. (Ed.) Seeing Contour and Colour (pp. 410-417). Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Foster, D.H., & Ferraro, M. (1989a). Discrete labelling processes for discrimination of multi-element images in human vision. In: J.C. Simon (Ed.) From Pixels to Features (pp. 315-322). Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Foster, D.H., & Ferraro, M. (1989b). Visual gap and offset discrimination and its relation to categorical identification in brief line-element displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, 15, 771-784.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Gravano, S., & Tomoszek, A. (1989). Acuity for fine-grain motion and for two-dot spacing as a function of retinal eccentricity: differences in specialization of the central and peripheral retina. Vision Research, 29, 1017-1031.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Snelgar, R.S., Scase, M.O., Heron, J.R., & Honan, W.P. (1989). Normal and abnormal opponent-colour function revealed in test spectral sensitivities. In: J.J. Kulikowski, Dickinson, C. M. , and Murray, I. J. (Ed.) Seeing Contour and Colour (pp. 361-372). Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Scase, M.O., & Foster, D.H. (1988). Anomalous loss in blue-green wavelength discrimination with very brief monochromatic stimuli presented to the normal human eye. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 8, 193-197. Download PDF

Ferraro, M., & Foster, D.H. (1987). Differentiation of fuzzy continuous mappings on fuzzy topological vector spaces. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 121, 589-601.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Bischof, W.F. (1987). Bootstrap variance estimators for the parameters of small-sample sensory-performance functions. Biological Cybernetics, 57, 341-347.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Snelgar, R.S., Scase, M.O., Heron, J.R., & Honan, W.P. (1987). Normal and abnormal opponent-colour function revealed in test spectral sensitivities. IBRO Symposium: Seeing Contour and Colour (p. F1).

Honan, W.P., Heron, J.R., Foster, D.H., & Snelgar, R.S. (1987). Paradoxical effects of temperature in multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 50, 1160-1164. Download PDF

Snelgar, R.S., Foster, D.H., & Scase, M.O. (1987). Isolation of opponent-colour mechanisms at increment threshold. Vision Research, 27, 1017-1027. Download PDF

Edgar, G.K., Foster, D.H., & Heron, J.R. (1986). Dimming of flickering lights in patients with multiple sclerosis. Journal of Physiology, 382, 84P-.

Ferraro, M., & Foster, D.H. (1986). Discrete and continuous modes of curved-line discrimination controlled by effective stimulus duration. Spatial Vision, 1, 219-230.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1986b). Psychophysical loss in optic neuritis: luminance and colour aspects. In: R.F. Hess, & G.T. Plant (Eds.), Optic Neuritis (pp. 152-191). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Foster, D.H. (1986c). Estimating the variance of a critical stimulus level from sensory performance data. Biological Cybernetics, 53, 189-194.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Heron, J.R., Jones, R.E., Snelgar, R.S., Mason, R.J., & Honan, W.P. (1986). Abnormalities in luminance threshold, chromatic and luminance flicker fusion, and other temporal measures in multiple sclerosis. Clinical Vision Sciences, 1, 64-73. Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Scase, M.O., & Snelgar, R.S. (1986). Functional isolation of normal human opponent-colour processes at increment threshold. Journal of Physiology, 377, 44P.

Foster, D.H., Scase, M.O., & Taylor, S.P. (1986). Anomalous loss in blue-green hue discrimination in very brief monochromatic stimuli presented to the normal human eye. Journal of Physiology, 381, 64P.

Kahn, J.I., & Foster, D.H. (1986). Horizontal-vertical structure in the visual comparison of rigidly transformed patterns. Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, 12, 422-433.  Download PDF

Bischof, W.F., Foster, D.H., & Kahn, J.I. (1985). Selective internal operations in the recognition of locally and globally point-inverted patterns. Spatial Vision, 1, 179-196.  Download PDF 

Foster, D.H. (1985). Visual Pattern Recognition. In: D.F. Andrews, & A. M. Herzberg (Eds) Data: A Collection of Problems from Many Fields for the Student and Research Worker (pp. 275-283). New York: Springer-Verlag.

Foster, D.H., & Dodwell, P.C. (1985). Editorial Spatial Vision, 1, 1-2.

Foster, D.H., & Kahn, J.I. (1985). Internal representations and operations in the visual comparison of transformed patterns: effects of pattern point-inversion, positional symmetry, and separation. Biological Cybernetics, 51, 305-312.   Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Snelgar, R.S., & Heron, J.R. (1985). Nonselective losses in foveal chromatic and luminance sensitivity in multiple sclerosis. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 26, 1431-1441.   Download PDF

Snelgar, R.S., Foster, D.H., Heron, J.R., Jones, R.E., & Mason, R.J. (1985). Multiple sclerosis: abnormalities in luminance, chromatic, and temporal function at multiple retinal sites. Documenta Ophthalmologica, 60, 79-92. Download PDF

Ferraro, M., & Foster, D.H. (1984). Characterization of discrete and continuous modes of visual pattern discrimination. Biological Cybernetics, 50, 9-13.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1984a). Colour vision. Contemporary Physics, 5, 477-497.

Foster, D.H. (1984b). Local and global computational factors in visual pattern recognition. In: D.P. C., & T.M. Caelli (Eds.), Figural Synthesis (pp. 83-115). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.  

Mason, R.J., Foster, D.H., & Ferraro, M. (1984). Factors influencing optimal configurations of complex visual displays. In: Proceedings of a NATO Workshop on Colour Coded vs Monochrome Electronic Displays (pp. 32.31-32.38): RAE(HMSO).

Foster, D.H. (1983a). Experimental test of a network theory of vision. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 664-665.

Foster, D.H. (1983b). Visual discrimination, categorical identification, and categorical rating in brief displays of curved lines: implications for discrete encoding processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, 9, 785-806.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Snelgar, R.S. (1983a). Initial analysis of opponent-colour interactions revealed in sharpened field spectral sensitivities. In: Colour Vision: Physiology and Psychophysics (pp. 303-311). London: Academic Press.

Foster, D.H., & Snelgar, R.S. (1983b). Test and field spectral sensitivities of colour mechanisms obtained on small white backgrounds: action of unitary opponent-colour processes? Vision Research, 23, 787-797.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Snelgar, R.S., & Heron, J.R. (1983). Abnormal chromatic and luminance sensitivity in multiple sclerosis. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 56, 16P.

Jones, R.E., Heron, J.R., Foster, D.H., Snelgar, R.S., & Mason, R.J. (1983). Effects of 4-aminopyridine in patients with multiple sclerosis. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 60, 353-362.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1982a). Analysis of discrete internal representations of visual pattern stimuli. In: J. Beck (Ed.) Organization and Representation in Perception (pp. 319-341). Hillsdale, N. J.: LEA.

Foster, D.H. (1982b). The dependence of observer characteristics upon image complexity. In: Electronic Image Processing, IEE Conference Proceedings No. 214 (pp. 22-25). London: Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Foster, D.H., & Gravano, S. (1982). Overshoot of curvature in visual apparent motion. Perception & Psychophysics, 31, 411-420.  Download PDF

Mason, R.J., Snelgar, R.S., Foster, D.H., Heron, J.R., & Jones, R.E. (1982). Abnormalities of chromatic and luminance critical flicker frequency in multiple sclerosis. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 23, 246-252.  Download PDF

Patterson, V.H., Foster, D.H., & Heron, J.R. (1982). Rod- and cone-mediated visual function in multiple sclerosis. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 57, 385-393. Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1981). Changes in field spectral sensitivities of red-, green- and blue-sensitive colour mechanisms obtained on small background fields. Vision Research, 21, 1433-1455.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Thorson, J., McIlwain, J.T., & Biederman-Thorson, M. (1981). The fine-grain movement illusion: a perceptual probe of neuronal connectivity in the human visual system. Vision Research, 21, 1123-1128.  Download PDF

Kahn, J.I., & Foster, D.H. (1981). Visual comparison of rotated and reflected random-dot patterns as a function of their positional symmetry and separation in the field. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 33A, 155-166.  Download PDF

Patterson, V.H., Foster, D.H., Heron, J.R., & Mason, R.J. (1981). Multiple sclerosis. Luminance threshold and measurements of temporal characteristics of vision. Archives of Neurology, 38, 687-689.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1980a). Opponency of red- and green-sensitive cone mechanisms in field spectral sensitivity measurements. Journal of Physiology, 298, 21P.

Foster, D.H. (1980b). A description of discrete internal representation schemes for visual pattern discrimination. Biological Cybernetics, 38, 151-157.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1980c). A spatial perturbation technique for the investigation of discrete internal representations of visual patterns. Biological Cybernetics, 38, 159-169.Download PDF

Foster, D.H., Heron, J.R., Mason, R.J., & Snelgar, R.S. (1980). Chromatic and luminance flicker perception in patients with multiple sclerosis. Journal of Physiology, 307, 26-27P.

Foster, D.H., & Mason, R.J. (1980). Irrelevance of local position information in visual adaptation to random arrays of small geometric elements. Perception, 9, 217-221.Download PDF

Patterson, V.H., Foster, D.H., & Heron, J.R. (1980). Variability of visual threshold in multiple sclerosis. Effect of background luminance on frequency of seeing. Brain, 103, 139-147.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1979a). Effect of a small blue adapting field on the spectral sensitivity of the red-sensitive colour mechanism of the human eye. Optica Acta, 26, 293-296.Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1979b). Interactions between blue- and red-sensitive colour mechanisms in metacontrast masking. Vision Research, 19, 921-931.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1979c). Fuzzy topological groups. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 67, 549-564.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1979d). Discrete internal pattern representations and visual detection of small changes in pattern shape. Perception and Psychophysics, 26, 459-468.

Foster, D.H., & Mason, R.J. (1979). Transformation and relational-structure schemes for visual pattern recognition. Biological Cybernetics, 32, 85-93.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1978a). Action of red-sensitive colour mechanism on blue-sensitive colour mechanism in visual masking. Optica Acta, 25, 1001-1004.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1978b). Visual apparent motion and the calculus of variations. In: E.L.J. Leeuwenberg, & H.F.J.M. Buffart (Eds.), Formal Theories of Visual Perception (pp. 67-82). Chichester: Wiley. Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1978c). Visual comparison of random-dot patterns: evidence concerning a fixed visual association between features and feature-relations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 30, 637-654.

Foster, D.H. (1977a). Visual pattern recognition by assignment of invariant features and feature-relations. Optica Acta, 24, 147-157.

Foster, D.H. (1977b). Rod- and cone-mediated interactions in the fine-grain movement illusion. Vision Research, 17, 123-127.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Mason, R.J. (1977). Interaction between rod and cone systems in dichoptic visual masking. Neuroscience Letters, 4, 39-42. Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1976). Rod-cone interaction in the after-flash effect. Vision Research, 16, 393-396.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1975a). Visual apparent motion and some preferred paths in the rotation group SO(3). Biological Cybernetics, 18, 81-89.   Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1975b). An approach to the analysis of the underlying structure of visual space using a generalized notion of visual pattern recognition. Biological Cybernetics, 17, 77-79.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1974). Visual pattern recognition and the structure of visual space: two indirect methods of analysis. In:. Proceedings of the JUREMA 1974 Part 1,

Foster, D.H., & Idris, I.I.M. (1974). Spatio-temporal interaction between visual colour mechanisms Vision Research, 14, 35-39.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1973a). A note on whether a non-linearity precedes the de Lange filter in the human visual system. Optica Acta, 20, 325-328. Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1973b). A hypothesis connecting visual pattern recognition and apparent motion. Kybernetik, 13, 151-154.

Foster, D.H. (1973c). An experimental examination of a hypothesis connecting visual pattern recognition and apparent motion. Kybernetik, 14, 63-70.

Foster, D.H. (1972a). A method for the investigation of those transformations under which the visual recognition of a given object is invariant. I. The theory. Kybernetik, 11, 217-222.

Foster, D.H. (1972b). A method for the investigation of those transformations under which the visual recognition of a given object is invariant. II. An example experiment: the group of rotations SO(2) acting on a Landolt ring. Kybernetik, 11, 223-229.

Foster, D.H. (1971a). The response of the human visual system to moving spatially periodic patterns: further analysis. Vision Research, 11, 57-81.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1971b). Some theoretical aspects of an apparent motion phenomenon associated with certain configurations of flashing lights. In: The Perception and Application of Flashing Lights (pp. 217-224.). London: Hilger.

Foster, D.H. (1971c). A model of the human visual system in its response to certain classes of moving stimuli. Kybernetik, 8, 69-84.   Download PDF

Foster, D.H. (1969). The response of the human visual system to moving spatially periodic patterns. Vision Research, 9, 577-590.  Download PDF

Foster, D.H., & Ruddock, K.H. (1969). The influence of colour vision mechanism on motion perception. Color 69: Proceedings of the 1st AIC Congress, 1 (pp. 197-205). Stockholm: Muster-Schmidt - Göttingen.

Foster, D.H. (1968). The perception of moving, spatially periodic, intensity distributions. Optica Acta, 15, 625-626. Download PDF


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