Peer-reviewed publications

• A three-dimensional color space from the 13th century.
  Smithson HE, Dinkova-Bruun G, Gasper GEM, Huxtable M, McLeish TCB & Panti C (2012).
  Journal of the Optical Society of America (A), 29 (2): A346-A352 | pdf

• Context-dependent judgments of color that might allow color constancy in scenes with multiple regions of illumination.
  Lee RJ & Smithson HE (2012).
  Journal of the Optical Society of America (A), 29 (2): A247-A257 | pdf

• Slow updating of the achromatic point after a change in illumination.
  Lee RJ, Dawson KA & Smithson HE (2012).
  Journal of Vision, 12(1):19 1-22 | pdf

• Modulation of the face- and body-selective visual regions by the motion and emotion of point-light face and body stimuli.
  Atkinson AP, Vuong QC & Smithson HE (2012).
  NeuroImage, 59: 1700-1712 | pdf

• Not all aberrations are equal: Reading impairment depends on aberration type and magnitude.
  Young LK, Liversedge SP, Love GD, Myers RM & Smithson HE (2011).
  Journal of Vision, 11(13):20, 1-19 | pdf

• Is there brief temporal buffering of successive visual inputs?
  Smith WS, Mollon JD, Bhardwaj R & Smithson HE (2011).
  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64 (4): 767-791 | pdf

• Latency characteristics of the short-wavelength-sensitive cones and their associated pathways.
  Lee RJ, Mollon JD, Zaidi Q & Smithson HE (2009).
  Journal of Vision, 9(12):5, 1-17 | pdf

• The effect of notched noise on flicker detection and discrimination.
  Smithson HE, Henning GB, MacLeod DIA & Stockman A (2009).
  Journal of Vision, 9(5):21, 1-18 | pdf

• The loss of the PDE6 deactivating enzyme, RGS9, results in precocious light adaptation at low light levels.
  Stockman A, Smithson HE, Webster AR, Holder GE, Rana NA, Ripamonti C & Sharpe LT (2008).
  Journal of Vision, 8 (1):10, 1-10 | pdf

• Residual cone vision without a-transducin.
  Stockman A, Smithson HE, Michaelides M, Moore AT, Webster AR & Sharpe LT (2007).
  Journal of Vision, 7 (4):8, 1-13 | pdf

• Human cone light adaptation: from behavioral measurements to molecular mechanisms.
  Stockman A, Langendörfer M, Smithson HE & Sharpe LT (2006).
  Journal of Vision, 6 (11), 1194-1213 | pdf

• Transitions between colour categories mapped with a reverse Stroop task.
  Smithson HE, Khan SS, Sharpe LT & Stockman A (2006).
  Visual Neuroscience, 23 (3-4): 453-460 | pdf

• Do magnocellular and parvocellular ganglion cells avoid short-wavelength cone input?
  Sun H, Smithson HE, Zaidi Q & Lee BB (2006).
  Visual Neuroscience, 23 (3-4): 441-446 | pdf

• Do masks terminate the icon?
  Smithson HE & Mollon JD (2006).
  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59 (1): 150-160 | pdf

• Specificity of cone inputs to macaque retinal ganglion cells.
  Sun H, Smithson HE, Zaidi Q & Lee BB (2006).
  Journal of Neurophysiology, 95: 837-849 | pdf

• Sensory, computational and cognitive components of human colour constancy.
  Smithson HE (2005).
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 360 (1458): 1329-1346 | pdf

• Is the S-opponent chromatic subsystem sluggish?
  Smithson HE & Mollon JD (2004).
  Vision Research, 44 (25): 2919-2929 | pdf

• Photostimulator allowing independent control of rods and the three cone types.
  Pokorny J, Smithson HE & Quinlan J (2004).
  Visual Neuroscience, 21 (3): 263-267 | pdf

• Colour constancy in context: Roles for local adaptation and levels of reference.
  Smithson H & Zaidi Q (2004).
  Journal of Vision, 4 (9): 693-710 | pdf

• How to find a tritan line.
  Smithson HE, Sumner P & Mollon JD (2003).
  In Normal and Defective Colour Vision, Eds: Mollon JD, Pokorny J & Knoblauch K, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK | pdf

• Forward and backward masking using brief chromatic stimuli.
  Smithson HE & Mollon JD (2001).
  Color Research and Application, 26 (S): 165-169 | pdf

Meeting reports

• Guest Editors’ Foreword: Proceedings of the 19th Biennial Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society. Held July 2007 Belém, Brazil.
  Silveira LCL, Smithson HE, Ventura DF & Lee BB (2003)
  Visual Neuroscience, 25 (3): 229-229 | pdf

• Meeting Report: The Fall Vision Meeting, 2002.
  Smithson HE (2003)
  Color Research and Application, 28 (5): 393-395 | pdf

• Meeting Report: The Rank Prize Funds Symposium, 1999.
  Smithson HE (2000)
  Color Research and Application, 25 (4): 309-311 | pdf

Published abstracts

• Modulation of the face- and body-selective visual regions by the motion and emotion of point-light face and body stimuli.
  Atkinson A, Vuong Q & Smithson H (2011).
  Perception, 40 ECVP Abstract Supplement, 70

• Sensory memory for motion trajectories.
  Bhardwaj R, Mollon JD & Smithson H (2011).
  Perception, 40 ECVP Abstract Supplement, 126

• Reading impairment in the presence of simulated defocus, coma or secondary astigmatism.
  Young LK, Smithson HE, Myers RM, Liversedge SP & Love GD (2011).
  Adaptive Optics in Vision, Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine, Murcia, Spain.

• Using Stroop interference to reveal cognitive colour spaces.
  Smithson HE & Stockman A (2010).
  Journal of Vision, 10(15):7

• Spatial and temporal adjustments to colour appearance.
  Smithson HE & Lee RJ (2010).
  Perception, 39, ECVP Abstract Supplement, 13

• Target and mask interaction at different cortical levels in sensory storage.
  Bhardwaj R, Mollon JD & Smithson HE (2010).
  Perception, 39, ECVP Abstract Supplement, 62

• Part-report for successive visual inputs.
  Smith W, Mollon JD & Smithson HE* (2009).
  AVA (Applied Vision Association) 14th Christmas Meeting. Perception 39, AVA Abstract

• The role of stimulus history in colour constancy.
  Smithson HE (2009).
  Journal of Vision, 9(14):9, 9a

• Chromatic appearance depends on the rate of change of the colour signal (the “slew” rate).
  Stockman A, Smithson HE, Aboshiha J, West P & Ripamonti C (2008).
  Journal of Vision, 8(6):1098, 1098a

• Adaptation of central colour channels.
  Lee RJ, Mollon JD, Zaidi Q & Smithson HE (2007).
  Perception, 36, ECVP Abstract Supplement

• Colour slew-rate: chromatic pathways are limited by a maximum rate at which they can signal changes in colour.
  Stockman A, Smithson HE, Aboshiha J, West P & Ripamonti C (2007).
  Perception, 36, ECVP Abstract Supplement

• Flicker-clicker: matching the frequency and phase of visual and auditory stimuli.
  Smithson HE & Stockman A (2007).
  Perception, 36, ECVP Abstract Supplement

• Transient tritanopia of a second kind redux: Delayed loss of S-cone sensitivity after long-wavelength field onset is consistent with the sluggish generation of an active photoproduct within the L- and M-cones.
  Stockman A & Smithson HE (2006).
  Journal of Vision, 6(13):5, 5a

• Using Stroop tasks to reveal the structure of colour space.
  Smithson HE, Sharpe LT & Mollon JD (2006).
  Perception, ECVP Supplement, pg. 176

• Second sight: Vision sustained by a secondary activation of the phototransduction cascade.
  Stockman A, Sharpe LT, Michaelides M, Moore A T, Webster AR, & Smithson HE (2006).
  Journal of Vision, 6(6), 120a

• What’s special about S-cone vision?
  Smithson HE (2005).
  Journal of Vision, 5(12), 18a

• Three ways to find a tritan line.
  Smithson H, Bourke A, Zaidi Q, Mollon J & Stockman A (2004).
  Journal of Vision, 4(11), 83a

• Flicker-clicker: cross modality matching experiments.
  Stockman A, Williams M & Smithson H (2004).
  Journal of Vision, 4(11), 86a

• Do masks terminate the icon?
  Smithson HE & Mollon JD (2004).
  Perception, 33, ECVP Abstract Supplement

• Roles for local adaptation and levels of reference in colour constancy
  Zaidi Q & Smithson HE (2004).
  Perception, 33, ECVP Abstract Supplement

• A new technique for measuring cone inputs to visual neurons.
  Sun H, Smithson H, Lee B & Zaidi Q (2004)
  Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 45: E-Abstract 4277

• Effects of temporal and spatial context on color appearance.
  Smithson H & Zaidi Q, (2003).
  Journal of Vision, 3 (12), 51a

• A new technique for measuring cone inputs to visual neurons.
  Sun H, Smithson H, Lee BB & Zaidi Q (2003).
  Journal of Vision, 3 (12), 42a

• Psychophysical assessment of the L:M weighting of inputs to the ON and OFF S-cone pathways.
  Smithson H & Pokorny J (2002).
  Journal of Vision, 2 (10), 54a

• How to find a tritan confusion line.
  Smithson HE, Sumner P & Mollon JD (2002).
  Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 43: E-Abstract 2955

• Partitions of object color space under illuminant and background changes.
  Smithson H & Zaidi Q (2002).
  Journal of Vision, 2 (7), 141a

• Reaction times to brief chromatic stimuli.
  Smithson HE & Mollon JD (2001).
  Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 42 (4): 532 Supplement.