Dr Simon Cropper
BSc (hons) Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; PhD Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Senior Lecturer
Contact details:
| email: scropper@unimelb.edu.au | |
| telephone: +61 3 8344 4232/6317 |
Research Interests:
- Motion perception
- The discrepancy between excitation and sensation in the visual system
- The evolution of thought in psychology
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Colour perception
Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:
- Association for the Public University (President)
- Member of the Vision Sciences Society
Selected Publications: |
Book Chapters
Cropper, S. J. (2001). Local and global motion signals and their interaction in space and time. In J. M. Zanker, J. Zeil (Ed), Motion Vision - Computational, Neural, and Ecological Constraints. Springer-Verlag ( Berlin ). pp 125-140.
Journal Articles
Cropper, S. J. (1994) Velocity discrimination in chromatic gratings and beats. Vision Research. 34, 41-48.
Cropper, S. J. & Derrington, A. M. (1994) Motion of chromatic stimuli: First-order or second-order? Vision Research. 34, 49-58.
Cropper, S. J. & Badcock, D. R. (1994) Discriminating smooth from sampled motion: Chromatic and luminance stimuli. Journal of the Optical Society of America, A,11(2), 515-530.
Cropper, S. J., Badcock, D. R. & Hayes, A. (1994) On the role of second-order signals in the perceived direction of type II plaid patterns. Vision Research, 34,2609-2612.
Cropper, S. J. & Derrington, A. M. (1995). Detection and motion-detection in chromatic and luminance beats. Journal of the Optical Society of America, A, 13(3). 401-407.
Cropper, S. J. & Derrington, A. M. (1996) Rapid, colour-specific motion detection in the human visual system. Nature. 379, 72-74 .
Cropper, S. J., Mullen, K. T. & Badcock, D.R. (1996) Motion coherence across different chromatic axes. Vision Research ,36, 2475-2489.
Mullen, K. T., Cropper, S. J. & Losada, M. A. (1997) Absence of subthreshold summation between red-green and luminance mechanisms over a wide range of spatio-temporal conditions. Vision Research, 37, 1157-1167.
Cropper, S. J. & Hammett, S. T. (1997) Adaptation to motion of a second-order pattern: The motion aftereffect is not a general result. Vision Research, 37, 2247-2259
Cropper, S. J. (1998) The detection of chromatic and luminance contrast-modulation by the visual system. Journal of the Optical Society of America, A,15(8), 1969-1986.
Cropper S. J. & Johnston, A. (2001) The motion of contrast-envelopes: Peace and Noise . Journal of the Optical Society of America, A, 18(9,) 2237-2254
Cropper, S. J. (2005). The detection of motion in chromatic stimuli: First-order and second-order spatial structure. Vision Research, 45(7), 865-880.
Cropper, S. J. (2005). The detection of motion in chromatic stimuli: Pedestals and masks. Vision Research, (In Press).
Cropper, S. J. & Wuerger, S. M. (2005). The detection of motion in chromatic stimuli: A critical review. Behavioural and Cognitive Science Reviews, (Invited for publication).
Wuerger. S.M., Atkinson., P. & Cropper, S.J. (2005) Unique hues are linearly related to cone signals. Vision Research, 45, (in Press)
Student under Supervision:
Eileen Robinson (Honours)