George Mather
Professor of Experimental
Psychology
Psychology Department, University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
My
research centres on topics in human visual perception, particularly motion and
depth perception.
Research
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Selected
Publications
Mather G, Moulden B (1980) A simultaneous
shift in apparent direction: further evidence for a 'distribution shift' model
of direction coding. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 32,325 333.
Mather
G, Cavanagh P, Anstis S (1985) A moving display which opposes short-range and
long-range signals. Perception, 14, 163 166.
Mather
G, Moulden B, O'Halloran A. (1991) Polarity specific adaptation to motion in
the human visual system. Vision Research, 31, 1013 1019.
Mather G, Radford K, West
S (1992) Low-level visual processing of biological motion. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond.
Series B, 249, 149-155.
Mather G, West S. (1993)
Evidence for second-order motion detectors. Vision Research, 33, 1109-1112.
Mather G, West S. (1993)
Recognition of animal locomotion mediated by point-light displays. Perception,
22, 759-766.
Mather
G. (2000) Integration biases in the Ouchi and other visual illusions. Perception
29, 721-727.
Mather
G (2001) Object-oriented models of cognitive processing. Trends Cognit. Sci.
5, 182-184.
Mather
G, Smith DRR (2002) Blur discrimination and its relation to blur-mediated depth
perception. Perception 31, 1211-1219.
Mather
G, Smith DRR (2004) Combining depth cues: effects upon speed of performance
in a depth-ordering task. Vision Research 44, 557-562.
Mather
G, Daniell AK (2005) No effect of spatial phase randomisation on direction discrimination
in dense random element patterns. Vision Research 45, 759-764.
Mather
G (2006) Two-stroke: a new illusion of visual motion based on the time course
of neural responses in the human visual system. Vision Research 46, 2015-2018.
Mather
G (2008) Perceptual uncertainty and line-call challenges in professional tennis.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275, 1645-1651.
Mather
G, Pavan A, Campana G, Casco C (2008) The motion after-effect reloaded. Trends
in Cognitive Sciences 12, 481-487.
Mather,
G. Challinor, K. L. (2009). Psychophysical properties of two-stroke apparent
motion. Journal of Vision, 9(1):28, 1-6, http://journalofvision.org/9/1/28/,
doi:10.1167/9.1.28.
Research
Funding
1997-2000 "The use
of image blur as a depth cue in human vision". EPSRC Grant £133,290.
A summary of this research is available on-line.
2000-2003 "Integrating
models of motion analysis in the human visual system". Wellcome Trust Grant
£109,689.
2004-2005 "Art
and Science in Motion Perception". EPSRC Network Grant, £15139.
2007-2010 "Computational
and psychophysical studies of polarity effects in human visual motion processing."
Wellcome Trust Grant, £126,654.
How
to contact me
Email: 
Phone: +44 1273 678342
Fax:+44 1273 678058
Room: 2B10 in Pevensey 1 Building
Last update June
2009