Michael A. Webster, Ph.D.
Professor, Cognitive and Brain Sciences



Phone: (775) 682-8691
Office: Mack Social Science Room 408
Lab: Mack Social Science Room 417
Lab Phone: (775) 682-8669
Email: mwebster@unr.nevada.edu

Research Interests

Recent Chapters

Webster, M. A.(2003) Light adaptation, contrast adaptation, and color vision. Mausefld, R., and Heyer, R. Colour Perception: From Light to Object. (Oxford University Press, Oxford), in press.

Webster, M.A. Pattern selective adaptataion in color and form perception. In The Visual Neurosciences, Volume 2. L.M. Chalupo and J.S. Werner, Eds. (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2003), pp. 936-947.

Webster, M.A. Color Vision. In The Optics Encyclopedia Volume 1, G. Brown et al., Eds., (Wiley-VCH, FRG, 2004), pp. 187-206.

Webster, M.A., Werner, J.S., and Field, D.J. Adaptation and the phenomenology of perception. In Fitting the Mind to the World: Adaptation and Aftereffects in High-Level Vision, Advances in Visual Cognition Servies, Volume 2, C. Clifford and G. Rhodes, Eds., (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 241-277.

Webster, M.A. Vision and color. In The Encyclopedia of Physics, R. Lerner and G. Trigg. Eds. (Wiley-VCH, 2005), pp. 2866-2883.

Webster, M.A. & Kay, P. (in press). Individual and Population Differences in Focal Colors. In The Anthropology of Color, R.L. MacLaury, G. Paramei &D. Dedrick, Eds.). John Benjamins, in press.

Recent Selected Publications

Webster, M. A., & Maclin, O. (1999). Figural after-effects in the perception of faces. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 6, 647-653.

Webster, M. A., & Malkoc, G. (2000). Color-luminance relationships and the McCollough Effect. Perception and Psychophysics, 62, 659-672.

Webster M.A. and Wilson, J.A. (2000). Interactions between chromatic adaptation and contrast adaptation in color appearance. Vision Reseach 40, 3801-3816.

Webster, M.A., Georgeson, M.A. and Webster, S.M. (2002). Neural adjustments to image blur. Nature Neuroscience 5, 839-840.

Webster, M.A., Webster, S.M., Bharadwadj, S., Verma, R., Jaikumar, J., Madan, J. and Vaithilingam, E. (2002). Variations in normal color vision: III. Unique hues in Indian and U.S. observers. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 19, 1957-1962.

Webster, M.A., Malkoc, G., Bilson, A.C., and Webster, S.M. (2002). Color contrast and contextual influences on color appearance. Journal of Vision 2, 502-519.

Webster, M.A., Kaping, D., Mizokami, Y., and Duhamel, P. (2004). Adaptation to natural facial categories. Nature 428, 558-561.

Delahunt, P., Webster, M.A., Ma, L., and Werner, J.S.(2004). Color appearance changes after cataract surgery reveal a long-term chromatic adaptation mechanism. Visual Neuroscience 21, 301-307.

Mizokami, Y., Paras, C., and Webster, M.A. (2004). Chromatic- and contrast-selectivity in color contrast adaptation. Visual Neuroscience 21, 359-363.

Yamashita, J.A., Hardy, J.L., De Valois, K.K., and Webster, M.A. (2005). Stimulus selectivity of figural aftereffects for faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 31, 420-437.

Bilson, A.C., Mizokami, Y., and Webster, M.A. Visual adjustments to temporal blur. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 22, 2281-2288.

Malkoc, G., Webster, M.A., and Kay, P. Normal variations in color vision IV. Binary hues and hue scaling. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 22, 2154-2168.

Membership in Professional Societies