Frederick Kingdom, PhD

Primary Axis: 
Neurosciences
Research Focus: 

Research is oriented towards understanding the relationship between the initial stages of human vision that detect local changes in colour and luminance, and intermediate stages that encode whole-surface properties such as texture, transparency, shadows, shading, lightness, colour and depth.Visual system, psychophysics, color vision, surface perception, spatial vision

Keywords: 
Visual system, psychophysics, color vision, surface perception, spatial vision
Location: 
Royal Victoria Hospital
Publications:
Shevell SK, Kingdom FAA. Color in complex scenes. Annual Review of Psychology 59: 143-166; 2008.
Frederick A. A. Kingdom et al. Leaning tower illusion. Scholarpedia 2(12): 5392; 2007.Liens connexesOnline version: Scholarpedia
Kingdom FAA. Colour brings relief to human vision. Nature Neuroscience 6: 641-644; 2003.