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According to Wikipedia, Professor John Dixon Mollon DSc FRS. is a British scientist. He is a leading researcher in visual neuroscience. His work has been cited over 15,000 times. Early life Education Having graduated in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, Mollon remained at the university for his DPhil. He later received a DSc, also from Oxford.

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Color vision. (1982) (737)
"Tho' she kneel'd in that place where they grew..." The uses and origins of primate colour vision. (1989) (541)
Fruits, foliage and the evolution of primate colour vision. (2001) (523)
Human visual pigments: microspectrophotometric results from the eyes of seven persons (1983) (481)
Computerized simulation of color appearance for dichromats. (1997) (364)
Variations of colour vision in a New World primate can be explained by polymorphism of retinal photopigments (1984) (343)
Luminance noise and the rapid determination of discrimination ellipses in colour deficiency (1994) (300)
Catarrhine photopigments are optimized for detecting targets against a foliage background. (2000) (265)
Adaptation and the color statistics of natural images (1997) (239)
The influence of contrast adaptation on color appearance (1994) (223)
A theory of theΠ1 andΠ3 color mechanisms of stiles (1979) (221)
Dichromats detect colour-camouflaged objects that are not detected by trichromats (1992) (219)
Control of eye movements (1977) (218)
Colour vision : physiology and psychophysics (1983) (217)
Changes in colour appearance following post-receptoral adaptation (1991) (192)
The evolution of trichromatic color vision by opsin gene duplication in New World and Old World primates. (1999) (176)
Three remarks on perceptual learning. (1996) (174)
Chromaticity as a signal of ripeness in fruits taken by primates. (2000) (174)
Photosensitive and photostable pigments in the retinae of Old World monkeys. (1991) (171)
Digital video colourmaps for checking the legibility of displays by dichromats (1999) (166)
The spatial arrangement of cones in the primate fovea (1992) (154)
Molecular evolution of trichromacy in primates (1998) (150)
Microspectrophotometric demonstration of four classes of photoreceptor in an old world primate, Macaca fascicularis. (1980) (146)
Frugivory and colour vision in Alouatta seniculus, a trichromatic platyrrhine monkey (1998) (142)
An anomaly in the response of the eye to light of short wavelengths. (1977) (139)
The relationship between cone pigments and behavioural sensitivity in a new world monkey (Callithrix jacchus jacchus) (1992) (139)
Reaction time as a measure of the temporal response properties of individua colour mechanisms. (1973) (137)
Normal and Defective Colour Vision (2003) (135)
Colors of primate pelage and skin: Objective assessment of conspicuousness (2003) (127)
CAG repeat expansions and schizophrenia: association with disease in females and with early age-at-onset. (1995) (127)
A study of women heterozygous for colour deficiencies (1993) (123)
Signals Invisible to the Collicular and Magnocellular Pathways Can Capture Visual Attention (2002) (121)
Individual differences in human eye movements: An oculomotor signature? (2017) (115)
The polymorphic photopigments of the marmoset: spectral tuning and genetic basis. (1992) (114)
Colour constancy influenced by contrast adaptation (1995) (114)
The visual pigments of rods and cones in the rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta. (1978) (112)
Achromatopsia caused by novel mutations in both CNGA3 and CNGB3 (2004) (111)
What do colour-blind people see? (1995) (110)
A neural basis for unique hues? (2009) (99)
Polymorphism of visual pigments in a callitrichid monkey (1988) (97)
Adaptive evolution of color vision genes in higher primates (1995) (95)
Sequence divergence and copy number of the middle- and long-wave photopigment genes in old world monkeys (1992) (94)
The dimensionality of color vision in carriers of anomalous trichromacy. (2010) (94)
A computer-controlled colour vision test that combines the principles of Chibret and of Stilling (1989) (91)
The chemistry of John Dalton's color blindness (1995) (90)
Autosomal dominant cone-rod retinal dystrophy (CORD6) from heterozygous mutation of GUCY2D, which encodes retinal guanylate cyclase. (2000) (89)
Monge: The Verriest Lecture, Lyon, July 2005 (2006) (88)
The independence of the temporal integration properties of individual chromatic mechanisms in the human eye (1971) (85)
Sequence divergence, polymorphism and evolution of the middle-wave and long-wave visual pigment genes of great apes and old world monkeys (1994) (82)
1 – The Origins of Modern Color Science (2003) (77)
Individual differences in visual science: What can be learned and what is good experimental practice? (2017) (77)
Structure and evolution of the polymorphic photopigment gene of the marmoset (1993) (75)
General and specific factors in the processing of faces (2017) (74)
Progressive cone dystrophy associated with mutation in CNGB3. (2004) (73)
A population study of binocular function (2015) (72)
Errors of judgement at Greenwich in 1796 (1996) (69)
Is the S-opponent chromatic sub-system sluggish? (2004) (66)
A detailed phenotypic study of “cone dystrophy with supernormal rod ERG” (2005) (64)
Blue cone monochromatism: a phenotype and genotype assessment with evidence of progressive loss of cone function in older individuals (2005) (63)
Reversed effect of adapting stimuli on visual sensitivity (1980) (59)
Color discrimination in carriers of color deficiency (2004) (58)
A TAXONOMY OF TRITANOPIAS (1982) (57)
Multidimensional scaling reveals a color dimension unique to ‘color-deficient’ observers (2005) (57)
Blue cone monochromacy: Causative mutations and associated phenotypes (2009) (57)
Trials of a computer-controlled colour vision test that preserves the advantages of pseudoisochromatic plates (1991) (55)
Rayleigh matches and unique green (1995) (54)
Saturation of a retinal cone mechanism (1977) (54)
X-linked cone dysfunction syndrome with myopia and protanopia. (2005) (53)
Colour illusion and evidence for interaction between cone mechanisms (1975) (52)
Colour discrimination thresholds in Parkinson's disease: results obtained with a rapid computer-controlled colour vision test (1998) (51)
Polymorphism of photopigments in the squirrel monkey: a sixth phenotype (1987) (51)
Cone dystrophy phenotype associated with a frameshift mutation (M280fsX291) in the α-subunit of cone specific transducin (GNAT2) (2003) (50)
A cluster of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the 5′-leader of the human dopamine D3 receptor gene (DRD3) and its relationship to schizophrenia (2000) (50)
A minimalist test of colour vision (1991) (49)
Do different ‘magnocellular tasks’ probe the same neural substrate? (2012) (49)
Latency characteristics of the short-wavelength-sensitive cones and their associated pathways. (2009) (49)
Genetic association suggests that SMOC1 mediates between prenatal sex hormones and digit ratio (2013) (48)
On the presence of three cone mechanisms in a case of total achromatopsia (1980) (47)
Assessment of association of D3 dopamine receptor MscI polymorphism with schizophrenia: analysis of symptom ratings, family history, age at onset, and movement disorders. (1996) (47)
The Spectral Sensitivities of the Middle- and Long-Wavelength Cones: An Extension of the Two-Colour Threshold Technique of W S Stiles (1986) (46)
On the Time Constants of Tachistoscopes* (1978) (45)
Sequence and evolution of the blue cone pigment gene in Old and New World primates. (1995) (45)
The club-sandwich mystery (1990) (45)
Color vision: opsins and options. (1999) (44)
The psychophysics of detecting binocular discrepancies of luminance (2009) (43)
Worlds of difference (1992) (43)
Parafoveal color discrimination: a chromaticity locus of enhanced discrimination. (2011) (40)
Vision out of the corner of the eye (2011) (38)
How to find a tritan line (2003) (37)
Variants in the 1q21 risk region are associated with a visual endophenotype of autism and schizophrenia (2014) (37)
The comparison of spatially separated colours (2006) (37)
E.H. Weber : the sense of touch (1978) (36)
Contrast adaptation dissociates different measures of luminous efficiency. (1993) (35)
Colour Vision Deficiencies XII (1995) (34)
Integrity of the cone photoreceptor mosaic in oligocone trichromacy. (2011) (34)
Colour discrimination ellipses in patients with dominant optic atrophy (1998) (33)
Retinal Ganglion Cells—Diversity of Cell Types and Clinical Relevance (2021) (33)
Behavioural and microspectrophotometric measurements of colour vision in monkeys (1981) (33)
Two types of trichromatic squirrel monkey share a pigment in the red-green spectral region (1985) (32)
Is color vision deficiency an advantage under scotopic conditions? (2001) (32)
Comparison at a Distance (2003) (31)
The relative salience of the cardinal axes of colour space in normal and anomalous trichromats (1997) (31)
Do masks terminate the icon? (2006) (31)
THE ARRANGEMENT OF L AND M CONES IN HUMAN AND A PRIMATE RETINA (2003) (30)
Modelling the Rayleigh match (2004) (27)
Foveal color perception: Minimal thresholds at a boundary between perceptual categories (2012) (27)
What is the function of the cone-rich rim of the retina? (1998) (26)
Did trichromacy evolve for frugivory or folivory (2003) (26)
Is there a general trait of susceptibility to simultaneous contrast? (2010) (26)
Tyndall's paradox of hue discrimination. (1988) (25)
The spectral distribution of primate cones and of the macular pigment: Matched to properties of the world? (1999) (25)
The use of CRT displays in research on colour vision (1995) (25)
Compatible and incompatible representations in visual sensory storage. (2012) (25)
An online version of the Mooney Face Test: phenotypic and genetic associations (2014) (25)
The Chromatic Antagonisms of Opponent Process Theory are not the Same as Those Revealed in Studies of Detection and Discrimination (1987) (24)
Cardinal axes are not independent in color discrimination. (2012) (23)
Oligocone trichromacy: a rare and unusual cone dysfunction syndrome (2004) (23)
Absence of transient tritanopia after adaptation to very intense yellow light (1976) (23)
“… On the Basis of Velocity Clues Alone”: Some Perceptual Themes 1946–1996 (1997) (23)
An exploratory factor analysis of visual performance in a large population (2017) (23)
The effect of photopigment optical density on the color vision of the anomalous trichromat (2011) (22)
The Nagel anomaloscope and seasonal variation of colour vision (1993) (22)
A curiosity of light adaptation (1980) (21)
Motion Minima for Different Directions in Color Space (1997) (20)
The Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR) and Face Recognition (2017) (19)
X-linked cone dystrophy and colour vision deficiency arising from a missense mutation in a hybrid L/M cone opsin gene (2013) (19)
The discriminability of colours on c.r.t. displays (1986) (19)
The Lagerlunda collision and the introduction of color vision testing. (2012) (18)
Susanne Liebmann in the Critical Zone (1996) (18)
Kirschmann’s Fourth Law (2012) (18)
Post-receptoral adaptation (1979) (18)
Post-receptoral processes in colour vision (1980) (18)
Unique hues in heterozygotes for protan and deutan deficiencies (1997) (17)
The origins of the concept of interference (2002) (17)
CAMBRIDGE COLOUR TEST Handbook (2000) (16)
Transient tritanopia of a second kind (1987) (15)
Perception: Questions of sex and colour (1986) (15)
Conditions under Which Stereopsis and Motion Perception are Blind (2002) (15)
The symmetry of visual fields in chromatic discrimination (2009) (15)
The oddity of blue (1977) (14)
Individual differences provide psychophysical evidence for separate on- and off-pathways deriving from short-wave cones. (2014) (13)
Is there brief temporal buffering of successive visual inputs? (2011) (13)
Constructing the color space of the deuteranomalous observer (1991) (13)
Can spatial resolution reveal individual differences in the L:M cone ratio? (2013) (13)
Molecular genetics: Understanding colour vision (1986) (12)
Superior discrimination for hue than for saturation and an explanation in terms of correlated neural noise (2016) (12)
Adaptation of colour vision to sunlight (1997) (11)
A reduction in stimulus duration can improve wavelength discriminations mediated by short-wave cones (1992) (11)
Measurements of Human Sensitivity to Comb-filtered Spectra (1996) (11)
Proceedings: Some properties of the blue cone mechanism of the eye. (1976) (10)
Microspectrophotometric and Psychophysical Results for the Same Deuteranopic Observer (1984) (10)
Sons and mothers: classification of colour-deficient and heterozygous subjects by counterphase modulation photometry (1997) (10)
Suggestive association with ocular phoria at chromosome 6p22. (2014) (10)
Is discrimination enhanced at the boundaries of perceptual categories? A negative case (2014) (9)
What do we compare when comparing separate objects (1999) (8)
Difficulties faced by color-anomalous observers in interpreting color displays (1990) (8)
Homozygous Resistance to Thyroid Hormone β: Can Combined Antithyroid Drug and Triiodothyroacetic Acid Treatment Prevent Cardiac Failure? (2017) (8)
Hue and the heptahelicals (1991) (8)
Symmetries and asymmetries in chromatic discrimination. (2014) (8)
Adaptation and the Color Statistics of Natural (1997) (8)
Relative latencies of cone signals measured by a moving vernier task. (2008) (7)
Tetrachromacy: the mysterious case of extra-ordinary color vision (2019) (7)
Forward and backward masking with brief chromatic stimuli (2001) (7)
The number of triplet repeats in five brain-expressed loci with CAG repeats is not associated with schizophrenia (1997) (7)
Post-receptoral adaptation (1979) (6)
Mixing genes and mixing colours (1993) (6)
Specifying, generating, and measuring colours (1998) (6)
The violet-sensitive receptors of primate retinae [proceedings]. (1979) (6)
Discrimination ellipses in the MacLeod-Boynton diagram: Results for normal and colour-deficient subjects obtained with a CRT display (1995) (6)
Color in natural images and its implications for visual adaptation (1996) (6)
Enhanced discrimination at a perceptual category boundary: Subjective and performance measures are concomitantly shifted by chromatic adaptation. (2012) (6)
Proceedings: Transient tritanopia: evidence for interaction between colour mechanisms. (1976) (5)
A new Mooney test (2016) (5)
Vision and Visual Dysfunction edited by J.R. Cronly-Dillon, Macmillan Press, 1991. £1250 (17 volumes); £82.50 (individual volumes) ISBN 0 333 52713 5 (1992) (5)
Individual differences as a window into the structure and function of the visual system (2017) (5)
Temporal Frequency and Contrast Adaptation (2003) (5)
Reprinted from C. P. Gibson "Colour coded vs Monochrome Electronic Displays", Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1984 REACTION TIME AS A MEASURE OF THE DISCRIMINABILITY OF LARGE COLOUR DIFFERENCES (2007) (5)
The gap effect is exaggerated in parafovea. (2006) (5)
The S and L - M chromatic systems have matched temporal processing characteristics only at low-light levels (2002) (4)
Shift in Rayleigh matches after adaptation to monochromatic light of various intensities (1998) (4)
Seeing heresy in its true colours (1984) (4)
Syringe labels seen through the eyes of the colour-deficient clinician. (2018) (4)
Association study of CAG expansions with schizophrenia (1995) (4)
John Elliot MD (1747–1787) (1987) (4)
Red-green colour deficiency and colour constancy under orthogonal-daylight changes (2003) (4)
Counterphase modulation photometry: comparison of two instruments. (2014) (3)
Cerebral iconics: how are visual stimuli represented centrally in the human brain? (2018) (3)
Signals invisible to the collicular and magnocellular pathways can capture visual attention but do not produce an oculomotor distractor effect (2010) (3)
Sildenafil Increases Persistence of Vision (2003) (3)
Gregory on the Sun Illusion (1975) (3)
Counterphase modulation flicker photometry: phenotypic and genotypic associations. (2014) (3)
Microspectrophotometric measurements indicate variation in the visual pigments of the common marmoset, a new world primate (1984) (3)
Do tetrachromatic women exist (2006) (3)
An oculomotor signature (2013) (3)
How does the human visual system compare the speeds of spatially separated objects? (2020) (2)
Is discrimination enhanced at a category boundary? The case of unique red. (2016) (2)
The Influence of Contrast Adaptation on Color (1993) (2)
Discussion: Biophysics and Psychophysics of Photoreceptors (1991) (2)
What kind of network is the brain? (2022) (2)
Colour vision. Worlds of difference. (1992) (2)
Cortical communication and the comparison of colors (2019) (2)
Acquisition and Processing of Information during States of REM Sleep and Slow-Wave Sleep. (1995) (2)
Colour impressions of history (1986) (2)
The dimensions of art (1987) (2)
A Study of Women Heterozygous for Colour (1993) (2)
Separation in the visual field has divergent effects on discriminating the speed and the direction of motion (2020) (1)
Molecular basis of cone dystrophy associated with protanopia. (2001) (1)
1 Suggestive association with ocular phoria at chromosome 6 p 22 (1)
Long-Term Changes in Colour Matching Functions after Exposure to Artificial Sunlight (1996) (1)
Walter Stanley Stiles 1901–1985 (1986) (1)
‘The last channel’: vision at the temporal margin of the field (2020) (1)
How to Find a Tritan Confusion Line (2002) (1)
Kirschmann's fourth law (2007) (1)
The pseudoisochromatic plates of E.N. Yustova (1997) (1)
Cortical Patterning Genes are Associated with Individual Differences in Visual Orientation Perception (2014) (1)
Genetic association suggests that SMOC1 mediates between prenatal sex hormones and digit ratio (2012) (1)
Colour vision: Direct recordings from the cone cells of a primate (1984) (1)
Failure to Obtain Hemifield Differences in the Discrimination of Spatial Parameters (2002) (1)
Studies of brain function, vol. 9: Neurophysiological aspects of color vision in primates By ?, 218 pp., 71 figs, Springer, Berlin, 1983, £23.40 (1984) (1)
Enhanced colour discrimination at a category boundary (2009) (1)
Association of CAG repeat expansions with clinical features of schizophrenia (1996) (1)
Adaptive Optics Imaging of the Cone Mosaic in Oligocone Trichromacy (2010) (1)
Three ways to find a tritan line (2004) (1)
Color Vision Deficiency Among Doctors: Can We Make Useful Adaptations to the Color Codes Used in the Clinical Environment? (2019) (1)
Gregory's 1977 Paper (2009) (1)
Fixation and perception. (1968) (1)
Horizontal lines in the MacLeod-Boynton diagram: Saturation discrimination and hue discrimination compared (2019) (1)
The tuning of simultaneous motion contrast and of motion adaptation (2009) (1)
Erratum: What do we compare when comparing separate objects? [J. Opt.Technol. 66, 857-861 October (1999)] (2000) (1)
Psychophysical Evidence For A ‘Non-cardinal’ Color Channel (2011) (1)
Bongard and Smirnov on the tetrachromacy of extra-foveal vision (2021) (1)
The illusory quest for primary colours (1982) (0)
Genetic associates of a visual endophenotype of autism and schizophrenia (2013) (0)
Obituary (2005) (0)
Perspectivist tradition leads men of vision (1977) (0)
Color Vision Conference. (1983) (0)
G protein-coupled receptors. Hue and the heptahelicals. (1991) (0)
The sight of art (1984) (0)
Dr W.S. Stiles (1901–1985) (1987) (0)
Poor Correlation between Different Putative Measures of Magnocellular Function (2011) (0)
A chromatic channel in which short-wave and long-wave cone signals are opposed to middle-wave cone signals? (2014) (0)
What Effect Does Photopigment Optical Density Have on the Color Vision of the Anomalous Trichromat (2009) (0)
Colour vision: mixing genes and mixing colours. (1993) (0)
Color discrimination and color categories (2010) (0)
Vision interrupted (1985) (0)
The anisotropy of color space (2013) (0)
Book Review: Handbook of Psychobiology (1976) (0)
How man has seen the world (1975) (0)
Perceptive handbook (1976) (0)
Sensory memory for motion trajectories (2011) (0)
The discriminability of colours displays (2007) (0)
Individual differences in saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements (2010) (0)
Discrimination of hue angle and discrimination of colorimetric purity assessed with a common metric. (2020) (0)
Genetic correlates of directional biases in the perception of structure-from-motion (2012) (0)
Illusion in Nature and Art, R.L. Gregory, E.H. Gombrich (Eds.). Duckworth, London (1973) (1974) (0)
13q32.1 as a candidate region for physiological anisocoria (2022) (0)
The discrimination of speed when the discriminanda are spatially separated and are moving in the same or in different directions (2017) (0)
Genome-wide Association Study Reveals Genetic Contributions To Individual Differences In Visual Temporal Processing (2012) (0)
Enhanced color discrimination in the vicinity of the caerulean line (2009) (0)
Unlocked edges or contradictory edges? Is there a master signal for edge locking? (2009) (0)
Mooney–Verhallen Recognition Test (2018) (0)
Note 96-01 Acquisition and Processing of Information During States of REM Sleep and Slow-Wave Sleep (0)
Speed and the coherence of superimposed chromatic gratings (2016) (0)
Target and mask interaction at different cortical levels in sensory storage (2010) (0)
Absinthe makes the art grow stronger (1993) (0)
Do “Magnocellular Tasks” Measure “Magnocellular Function”? (2012) (0)
Concepts of colour (1979) (0)
Individual differences in cone ratio: Measurements by counterphase modulation photometry and by spatial acuity (2011) (0)
Use of a computer-controlled raster display for rapid screening of colour vision (1992) (0)
There is more than one way of making you tritanopia (1991) (0)
A chromaticity diagram in which real-world colors lie outside the spectrum locus (2019) (0)
Illusions of pedigree (1980) (0)
Chromatic discrimination at phenomenological category boundaries: The case of unique red (2013) (0)
Mooney Face Test--Online Version (2017) (0)
Neurobiology. The club-sandwich mystery. (1990) (0)
The Rays Are Not Coloured. Essays on the Science of Vision and Colour (1968) (0)
The comparison of spatially separated stimuli: judgments of speed (2017) (0)
Isolating colour vision mechanisms with hue substitution (reply) (1980) (0)
Relative Numbers Of L And M Cones: Correlation Between Estimates From Acuity For Isolated Cone Types And From A Temporal Measure (2011) (0)
A detailed study of the phenotype of an unusual progressive cone dystrophy with supernormal rod responses (2004) (0)
Mixing genes and mixing colours Recent work on the molecular genetics and biochemistry of the human cone photopigments provides a basis for understanding variations in colour vision in human populations. (1993) (0)
Color discrimination at category boundaries (2012) (0)
A paradox of color discrimination (2011) (0)
Colour Matching functions in women heterozygous for anomalous trichromacy (2015) (0)
Obituary: Edwin Herbert Land (1909-1991) (1991) (0)
Individual Differences Provide Psychophysical Evidence for Separate S-on and S-off Channels (2011) (0)
A potassium ion channel associated with variation in the accuracy of ocular tracking (2014) (0)
Cognition through color by J. Davidoff, MIT Press, 1991. $32.50 (xiv + 217 pages) ISBN 0 262 041154 (1992) (0)
Tetrachromatic Vision (2022) (0)
Colour Perception 1978–1997 (1997) (0)
The Mooney face task: Genetic, phenotypic, and behavioural associations (2013) (0)
Hemifield differences in spatial and colour discriminations and the mechanisms of sensory comparison (2008) (0)
Association studies of the DRD3 dopamine receptor gene and the NT-3 (neurotrophin-3) gene in unrelated schizophrenics (1996) (0)
Clash of cultures (1988) (0)
History of optics: John Elliot MD (1747-1787). (1987) (0)
Light, Colour and Vision (1969) (0)
From Plato to Penrose (1997) (0)

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