News and highlights

Changes: The CVRL database has been extensively updated to include csv, xml, tabular data and dynamic plotting. The plots are generated as *.png files, which can be downloaded. Clicking on equations now magnifies them (except in Safari). Another new addition is the image gallery, which contains a selection of diagrams, figures and illusions. The MacLeod-Boynton chromaticity coordinates have been posted to 8 decimal places.

Publications: Chapters co-written with David Brainard on Color Vision Mechanisms and Colorimetry have appeared in Volume III of the new edition of the OSA Handbook of Optics. A paper on Scotopic adaptation has been published in the Journal of Vision. A preview of a paper in which we corrected our previous estimate of the luminous efficiency function has appeared.

Teaching: In 2011, the half-unit Eye & Brain course (ANAT3045) will be renamed Visual Neuroscience. Students will also be able to take instaed a full-unit course called Advanced Visual Neuroscience. This will be made up of the Visual Neuroscience half-unit plus additional lectures and courrework.