Umeton D, Read JCA, Rowe C ( 2017 )
Unravelling the illusion of flicker fusion

Biology Letters Vol: 13 Pages: 13: 20160831. [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 28148834

Hands P ( 2017 )
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Nityananda V, Tarawneh G, Errington S, Serrano-Pedraza I, Read JCA ( 2017 )
The optomotor response of the praying mantis is driven predominantly by the central visual field

Journal of Comparative Physiology A Vol: 203 Pages: 77-87 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 28005254

Yazdani P, Read JCA, Whittaker RG, Trevelyan AJ ( 2017 )
Assessment of epilepsy using noninvasive visual psychophysics tests of surround suppression

Physiological Reports Vol: 5(5) Pages: pii: e13079. doi: 10.14814/phy2.13079. [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 28275107

Vancleef K, Read JCA, Herbert W, Goodship N, Woodhouse M, Serrano-Pedraza I ( 2017 )
Overestimation of stereo thresholds by the TNO stereotest is not due to global stereopsis.

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics Vol: 37(4) Pages: 507-520 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 28337792

Hands P, Read JCA ( 2017 )
True stereoscopic 3D cannot be simulated by shifting 2D content off the screen plane

Displays Vol: 48 Pages: 35-40 [view on journal website]

Rosner R, von Hadeln J, Salden T, Homberg U ( 2017 )
Anatomy of the lobula complex in the brain of the praying mantis compared to the lobula complexes of the locust and cockroach

Journal of Comparative Neurology Vol: 525 (10) Pages: 2343–2357 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 28295329

Read JCA, Cumming BG ( 2017 )
Visual Perception: Neural Networks for Stereopsis

Current Biology Vol: 27(12) Pages: R594–R596 [view on journal website]

Nityananda V, Read JCA ( 2017 )
Stereopsis in animals: evolution, function and mechanisms

Journal of Experimental Biology Vol: 220 Pages: 2502-2512 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 28724702

Ushaw G, Sharp S, Hugill J, Rafiq S, Black C, Casanova T, Vancleef K, Read JCA, Morgan G ( 2017 )
Analysis of Soft Data for Mass Provision of Stereoacuity Testing Through a Serious Game for Health

Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Digital Health (DH '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA. Vol: 6 Pages: 216-220 [view on journal website]

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3079452.307949

Tarawneh G, Nityananda V, Rosner R, Errington S, Herbert W, Cumming BG, Read JCA, Serrano-Pedraza I ( 2017 )
Invisible noise obscures visible signal in insect motion detection

Scientific Reports Vol: 7: 3496 Pages: 1-14 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 28615659

Read JCA, Godfrey A, Bohr I, SImonotto J, Galna B, Smulders TV ( 2016 )
Viewing 3D TV over two months produces no discernible effects on balance, coordination or eyesight.

Ergonomics Vol: Jan 13 Pages: 1-16 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 26758965

Nityananda V, Tarawneh G, Rosner R, Nicolas J, Crichton S, Read JCA ( 2016 )
Insect stereopsis demonstrated using a 3D insect cinema

Scientific Reports Vol: 6 Pages: 18718 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 26740144

Newcastle University press release. Video clips from Tyne Tees news. LA Times. HuffPo. Sky News. The Independent. Daily Mail. Wissenschaft. El Correo. Metronews France.

Nityananda V, Bissianna G, Tarawneh G, Read JCA ( 2016 )
Small or far away? Size and distance perception in the praying mantis.

Philosophical Transactions B Vol: 371(1697) Pages: pii: 20150262 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 27269605

Serrano-Pedraza I, Herbert W, Villa-Laso L, Widdall M, Vancleef K, Read JCA ( 2016 )
The stereoscopic anisotropy develops during childhood.

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science Vol: 57(3) Pages: 960-70 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 26962692

Henriksen S, Cumming BG, Read JCA ( 2016 )
A single mechanism can account for human perception of depth in mixed correlation random dot stereograms

PLOS Computational Biology Vol: 12(5) Pages: e1004906:1-21 [view on journal website]

All simulations were implemented in Sid Henriksen's BEMtoolbox: a custom Matlab toolbox for simulating binocular neurons. The toolbox is available at http://github.com/sidh0/BEMtoolbox. All code used in the current manuscript is available online at http://github.com/sidh0/hcr16_ploscb (requires BEMtoolbox).

Henriksen S, Read JCA ( 2016 )
Visual Perception: A Novel Difference Channel in Binocular Vision

Current Biology Vol: 26(12) Pages: R500–R503 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 27326711

This article is a commentary on May & Zhaoping 2016, "Efficient Coding Theory Predicts a Tilt Aftereffect from Viewing Untilted Patterns", Current Biology 26: 1571–1576

Henriksen S, Read JCA, Cumming BG ( 2016 )
Neurons in Striate Cortex Signal Disparity in Half-Matched Random-Dot Stereograms

Journal of Neuroscience Vol: 36(34) Pages: 8967– 8976 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 27559177

Serrano-Pedraza I, Vancleef K, Read JCA ( 2016 )
Avoiding monocular artifacts in clinical stereotests presented on column-interleaved digital stereoscopic displays

Journal of Vision Vol: 16(14):13 Pages: 1-14 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 27846341

O'Hanlon, CG and Read JCA ( 2016 )
Blindness to background: an inbuilt bias for visual objects

Developmental Science Vol: DOI: 10.1111/desc.12478 Pages: 1-23 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 27873433

A video abstract describing the main findings. Here is a press release by Aberystwyth University. Our complete Matlab code for these experiments, including the code for operating the RED50 eye tracker, is available here ExptRED.zip. See also here.

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Read JCA, Georgiou R, Brash C, Yazdani P, Whittaker R, Trevelyan A, Serrano-Pedraza I ( 2015 )
Moderate acute alcohol intoxication has minimal effect on surround suppression measured with a motion direction discrimination task

Journal of Vision Vol: 15(1):5 Pages: 1-14 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 25583875

Mazurek A, Bhoopathy R, Read JCA, Gallagher P, Smulders TV ( 2015 )
What-Where-When memory, unlike other cognitive abilities, is unimpaired in healthy people over 70

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience Vol: 7 Pages: 00074 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 26042030

This paper used a Bayes Factor analysis for binomial data. The code is available here, both as Matlab code and as an executable to download.

Nityananda V, Tarawneh G, Jones L, Busby N, Herbert W, Davies R, Read JCA ( 2015 )
The contrast sensitivity function of the praying mantis Sphodromantis lineola

Journal of Comparative Physiology A Vol: 201(8) Pages: 741-50 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 25894490

Here you can find the raw data for this paper, in Matlab format, and also an Excel file reporting the fitted thresholds for the individual insects and for the aggregate data pooled across individuals, using the methods reported in the paper. Also, see this blog post on a subtlety concerning the definition of frequency.

Hands P, Khushu A, Read JCA ( 2015 )
Interaction between size and disparity cues in distance judgements

3D Imaging (IC3D), 2014 International Conference on Vol: Pages: 1-5 [view on journal website]

Read JCA ( 2015 )
What is stereoscopic vision good for?

Proc. SPIE 9391, Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXVI, 93910N (March 17, 2015); doi:10.1117/12.2184988 Vol: Pages: [view on journal website]

Read JCA, Simonotto J, Bohr I, Godfrey A, Galna B, Rochester L, Smulders TV ( 2015 )
Balance and coordination after viewing stereoscopic 3D television

Royal Society Open Science Vol: 2 Pages: 140522 [view on journal website]

Data set available here.

Discussion of this paper on The Conversation website.

Hands P, Smulders TV, Read JCA ( 2015 )
Stereoscopic 3D content appears relatively veridical when viewed from an oblique angle

Journal of Vision Vol: 15(5):6 Pages: 1-21 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 26067524

Yazdani P, Serrano-Pedraza I, Whittaker R, Trevelyan A, Read JCA ( 2015 )
Two common psychophysical measures of surround suppression reflect independent neuronal mechanisms

Journal of Vision Vol: 15 (21) Pages: 1-14 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 26401628

Read JCA, Vancleef K, Serrano-Pedraza I, Morgan G, Sharp C, Clarke MP ( 2015 )
ASTEROID: Accurate STEReoacuity measurement in the eye clinic

Perception Vol: 44(S1) Pages: 75 [view on journal website]

Read JCA, Bohr I ( 2014 )
User experience while viewing stereoscopic 3D television

Ergonomics Vol: 57(8) Pages: 1140-53 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 24874550

Journal press release "Good news for couch potatoes".

Read JCA ( 2014 )
The place of human psychophysics in modern neuroscience

Neuroscience Vol: 296 Pages: 116-29 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 24880153

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Models of stereo vision

Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience Vol: Springer Reference Pages: [view on journal website]

Read JCA ( 2014 )
Viewer experience with stereoscopic 3D television in the home

Displays Vol: 35 Pages: 252-260 [view on journal website]

Read JCA ( 2014 )
Stereo vision and strabismus

Eye Vol: 29 Pages: 214–224 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 25475234

Serrano-Pedraza I, Romero-Ferreiro V, Read JCA, Diéguez-Risco T, Bagney A, Caballero-González M, Rodríguez-Torresano J, Rodriguez-Jimenez J ( 2014 )
Reduced visual surround suppression in schizophrenia shown by measuring contrast detection thresholds

Frontiers in Psychology Vol: 5 Pages: [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 25540631

Tarawneh G, Read JCA ( 2014 )
An FPGA-based hardware accelerator for simulating spatiotemporal neurons

Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 21st IEEE International Conference on Vol: 2014 Pages: 618 - 621 [view on journal website]

Read JCA, Begum SF, McDonald A, Trowbridge J ( 2013 )
The binocular advantage in visuomotor tasks involving tools

i-Perception Vol: 4 Pages: 101–110 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 23755355

Read JCA, Allenmark PF ( 2013 )
Visual Perception: One World from Two Eyes

Current Biology Vol: 23(11) Pages: R483-R486 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 23743415

Serrano-Pedraza I, Brash C, Read JCA ( 2013 )
Testing the horizontal-vertical stereo anisotropy with the critical-band masking paradigm

Journal of Vision Vol: 13(11):15 Pages: 1-15 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 24071587

Read JCA, Hands P ( 2013 )
Review of James Stone's book "Vision and brain: How we perceive the world"

Perception Vol: 42(6) Pages: 685 [view on journal website]

Bohr I, Read JCA ( 2013 )
Stereoacuity with Frisby and revised FD2 stereo tests

PLOS ONE Vol: 8(12) Pages: e82999 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 3861460

Hands P, Read JCA ( 2013 )
Perceptual compensation mechanisms when viewing stereoscopic 3D from an oblique angle

International Conference on 3D Imaging (IC3D), 2013 Vol: Pages: 1 - 5 [view on journal website]

DOI = 10.1109/IC3D.2013.6732086

Read JCA ( 2013 )
Man, mantis and machine : the computation of 3D vision

Leverhulme Trust Annual Review Vol: Pages:

Vuong QC, Friedman A, Read JCA ( 2012 )
The relative weight of shape and non-rigid motion cues in object perception: A model of the parameters underlying dynamic object discrimination

Journal of Vision Vol: 12(3): 16 Pages: 1-20 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 22427696

Brilot BO, Bateson M, Nettle N, Whittingham MJ, Read JCA ( 2012 )
When is general wariness favored in avoiding multiple predator types?

American Naturalist Vol: 179(6) Pages: E180-E195 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 22617270

Banks MS, Read JCA, Allison RS, Watt SJ ( 2012 )
Stereoscopy and the Human Visual System

Motion Imaging Vol: 121 (4) Pages: 24-43 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 23144596

This paper was cited by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers for a Certificate of Merit as an outstanding paper published in Motion Imaging during 2012.

Read JCA ( 2012 )
Understanding visual cues to depth

Current Biology Vol: 22 (5) Pages: R163-R165 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 22401898

Comment on Curr Biol. 2012 Mar 6;22(5):426-31.

Serrano-Pedraza I, Grady J, Read JCA ( 2012 )
Spatial frequency bandwidth of surround suppression tuning curves

Journal of Vision Vol: 12(6):24 Pages: 1-11 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 22715195

Allenmark PF, Read JCA ( 2012 )
Conjunctions between motion and disparity are encoded with the same spatial resolution as disparity alone

Journal of Neuroscience Vol: 32(41) Pages: 14331–14343 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 23055504

Read JCA, Robson JH, Smith CL, Lucas AD ( 2012 )
The scintillating grid illusion is enhanced by binocular viewing

i-Perception Vol: 3(10) Pages: 820–830 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 23482297

Press release on Newcastle University website.

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Serrano-Pedraza I, Clarke MP, Read JCA ( 2011 )
Single vision during ocular deviation in intermittent exotropia

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics Vol: 31 Pages: 45-55 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 21158884

Serrano-Pedraza I, Manjunath V, Osunkunle O, Clarke MP, Read JCA ( 2011 )
Visual suppression in intermittent exotropia during binocular alignment

Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science Vol: 52(5) Pages: 2352-2364 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 21220559

This paper won the 2011 Pfizer Research Prize for excellent ophthalmological research in the North East.

Serrano-Pedraza I, Hogg EL, Read JCA ( 2011 )
Spatial non-homogeneity of the antagonistic surround in motion perception

Journal of Vision Vol: 11(2):3 Pages: 1–9 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 21292831

Allenmark PF, Read JCA ( 2011 )
Spatial stereoresolution for depth corrugations may be set in primary visual cortex

PLoS Computational Biology Vol: 7(8) Pages: e1002142 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : PMC3158043

Read JCA, Vaz X, Serrano-Pedraza I ( 2011 )
Independent mechanisms for bright and dark image features in a stereo correspondence task

Journal of Vision Vol: 11(12):4 Pages: 1-14 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 21984818

Serrano-Pedraza I, Phillipson GP, Read JCA ( 2010 )
A specialization for vertical disparity discontinuities

Journal of Vision Vol: 10(3):2 Pages: 1-25 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 20377279

Hardingham N, Read JCA, Trevelyan A, Nelson C, Jack JJB, Bannister N ( 2010 )
Quantal analysis reveals a functional correlation between pre- and postsynaptic efficacy from excitatory connections in rat neocortex

Journal of Neuroscience Vol: 30(4) Pages: 1441-51 [view on journal website]

Matlab code

Read JCA ( 2010 )
Vertical binocular disparity is encoded implicitly within a model neuronal population tuned to horizontal disparity and orientation

PLoS Computational Biology Vol: 6(4) Pages: e1000754 [view on journal website]

Allenmark PF, Read JCA ( 2010 )
Detectability of sine- versus square-wave disparity gratings: a challenge for current models of depth perception

Journal of Vision Vol: 10(8):17 Pages: 1-16 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 20884592

Read JCA, Phillipson GP, Serrano-Pedraza I, Milner AD, Parker AJ ( 2010 )
Stereoscopic vision in the absence of the lateral occipital cortex

PLoS ONE Vol: 5(9) Pages: e12608 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 20830303

Supplementary file S1.
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Supplementary file S3.

Read JCA, Phillipson GP, Serrano-Pedraza I, Milner AD, Parker AJ ( 2010 )
Stereoscopic vision in the absence of the lateral occipital cortex (Supplementary File 1)

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Stereoscopic vision in the absence of the lateral occipital cortex (Supplementary File 2)

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Read JCA, Phillipson GP, Serrano-Pedraza I, Milner AD, Parker AJ ( 2010 )
Stereoscopic vision in the absence of the lateral occipital cortex (Supplementary File 3)

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Phillipson GP, Read JCA ( 2010 )
Stereo correspondence is optimized for large viewing distances

European Journal of Neuroscience Vol: doi:10.1111/j. Pages: 1460-9568.2010.07454.x. Pubmed ID : 20955471

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Multiple channels for horizontal, but only one for vertical corrugations? A new look at the stereo anisotropy

Journal of Vision Vol: 10(12):10 Pages: 1–11 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 21047742

Serrano-Pedraza I, Read JCA ( 2009 )
Stereo vision requires an explicit encoding of vertical disparity

Journal of Vision Vol: 9(4):3 Pages: 1--13 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 19757912

Bredfeldt CE, Read JCA , Cumming BG ( 2009 )
A quantitative explanation of responses to disparity defined edges in macaque V2.

Journal of Neurophysiology Vol: 101 Pages: 701-713 [view on journal website]

Read JCA, Phillipson GP, Glennerster A ( 2009 )
Latitude and longitude vertical disparities

Journal of Vision Vol: 9(13):11 Pages: 1-37 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 20055544

All Matlab code required to generate the figures is available here. NB One thing I get with all my old Matlab code is that the abbreviation “fonts” no longer works in recent versions of Matlab; you have to say “fontsize”. So you may need a search and replace on that.

Read JCA , Cumming BG (2007) ( 2007 )
Sensors for impossible stimuli may solve the stereo correspondence problem.

Nature Neuroscience Vol: 10 Pages: 1322 - 1328. [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 17828262

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Comment on this paper in Nature's Research Highlights section, Nature, 449: 118.
This directory should contain the code I used to generate Fig 3 (instructions on using)

Read JCA , Cumming BG ( 2007 )
Sensors for impossible stimuli may solve the stereo correspondence problem (Comment on this paper in Nature's Research Highlights section)

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Hardingham NR, Bannister NJ, Read JCA, Fox KD, Hardingham GE, Jack JJB ( 2006 )
Extracellular calcium regulates postsynaptic efficacy through group 1 metabotropic glutamate receptors.

Journal of Neuroscience . Vol: 26(23) Pages: 6337-45 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 16763042

Matlab Code

Read JCA, Cumming BG ( 2006 )
Does depth perception require vertical disparity detectors?

Journal of Vision Vol: 6(12)1 Pages: 1323-1355 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 17209738

Read JCA ( 2005 )
Early computational processing in binocular vision and depth perception.

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology Vol: 87 Pages: 77-108 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 15471592

Read JCA, Cumming BG ( 2005 )
The effect of interocular delay on disparity-selective V1 neurons: relationship to stereoacuity and the Pulfrich effect.

Journal of Neurophysiology Vol: 94 Pages: 1541-1553 Pubmed ID : 15788521

Read JCA, Cumming BG ( 2005 )
The stroboscopic Pulfrich effect is not evidence for the joint encoding of motion and depth.

Journal of Vision Vol: 5(5):3 Pages: 417-434 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 16097873

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All Pulfrich-like illusions can be explained without joint encoding of motion and disparity.

Journal of Vision Vol: 5(11):1 Pages: 901-927 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 16441193

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Ocular dominance predicts neither strength nor class of disparity selectivity with random-dot stimuli in primate V1.

Journal of Neurophysiology Vol: 91 Pages: 1271-1281 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 14523074

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Understanding the cortical specialization for horizontal disparity.

Neural Computation Vol: 16(10) Pages: 1983-2020 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 15333204

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Read JCA, Cumming BG ( 2003 )
Measuring V1 receptive fields despite eye movements in awake monkeys.

Journal of Neurophysiology Vol: 90 Pages: 946-960 Pubmed ID : 12711706

Read JCA, Cumming BG ( 2003 )
Testing quantitative models of binocular disparity selectivity in primary visual cortex.

Journal of Neurophysiology Vol: 90 Pages: 2795-2817

Read JCA ( 2002 )
A Bayesian model of stereo depth / motion direction discrimination.

Biological Cybernetics Vol: 82 Pages: 117-136 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 11911114

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A Bayesian approach to the stereo correspondence problem.

Neural Computation Vol: 14 Pages: 1371-1392 Pubmed ID : 12020451

Read JCA, Parker AJ, Cumming BG ( 2002 )
A simple model accounts for the response of disparity-tuned V1 neurons to anti-correlated images.

Visual Neuroscience Vol: 19 Pages: 735-753 Pubmed ID : 12688669

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Read JCA, Eagle RA ( 2000 )
Reversed stereo depth and motion direction with anti-correlated stimuli

Vision Research Vol: 40 Pages: 3345-3358 [view on journal website] Pubmed ID : 11058733

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Stephan KE, Heimel J-A F, Read JCA ( 2000 )
The European Union Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience: linking theoretical and experimental neurosciences.

Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Futura Vol: 15(1) Pages: 5-14

Evans NW, Read JCA ( 1998 )
Stability of power-law discs I. The Fredholm integral equation

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol: 300 Pages: 83-105 [view on journal website]

Evans NW, Read JCA ( 1998 )
Stability of power-law discs II. The global spiral modes.

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol: 300 Pages: 106-130 [view on journal website]

Read JCA ( 1997 )
The stability of model disk galaxies

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Sensors for impossible stimuli may solve the stereo correspondence problem (Supplementary material)

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