School of Life Sciences

Professor Alexander Logvinenko

Research Professor

ROOM: A013
T: +44 141 331 8292
F: +44 (0)141 331 3387
E: a.logvinenko@gcal.ac.uk

Profile

I studied Psychology (1968-72) and Applied Math (1966-68, 1976-79) at the Moscow State University (Russia). My interest in psychology was evoked by professor Alexej Leont'ev who supervised my thesis for a Candidate of Psychological Sciences degree - equivalent to PhD (1974). My second scientific degree (Doctor of Psychological Sciences) I also received from the Moscow State University (1984). Before going to the UK in 1992, I was a Professor at the Moscow St. University doing teaching and research in psychology and mathematical methods for psychologists. Then I had been working at the Queen's University of Belfast (1993 to 2003) as a Lecturer and then a Reader. Since February 2004 I am a Professor in Visual Sciences at GCU.

Research Interests

Generally, my research interests deal with visual perception, psychophysics, colour vision, and mathematical modelling of visual processes.

Demonstrations

Some interesting illusions can be seen if you click here

Grants

My research projects "Lightness Induction" and "Colour mechanisms in human vision" have been supported by BBSRC (a 3 yrs grant of £133,632, 2000-2003) and The Wellcome Trust (a 3 yrs grant of £119,889). Thanks to the travel grants from The British Academy (£5000, 2003) and BBSRC (£1000), I had been a visiting scholar at The New York University (Oct, 2003 to Feb, 2004) working on the project "Multidimensional scaling of lightness perception" with Professor L. Maloney. The latter project has been supported by the EPSRC 3 yrs grant of £172,442 in 2005.

Teaching

I had been lecturing at the QUB: Basic Psychology module; Cognitive Psychology module; Perception; Eye and Brain; Perception and Action. Colour in Science, Art and Personality Assessment.

Recent Publications

Logvinenko A. D. & Hutchinson S. J. (2007) Evidence for the existence of colour mechanisms producing unique hues as derived from a colour illusion based on spatio-chromatic interactions. Vision Research, 47, 1315-1334.

Logvinenko A. D. (2006) Does colour matching follow Grassmann’s laws? In "Symposium on 75 Years of the CIE Standard Colorimetric Observer. CIE Publication x030:2006, Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage, Vienna, Austria (2006)."  pp. 133-138.

Logvinenko A. D. & Beattie L. L. (2006) Partial colour matching: a new method to evaluate colour appearance in quantitative terms. In "CGIV - Third European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision, Leeds, UK". The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (CD-ROM), pp. 262-265.

Logvinenko A. D. & Maloney L. T. (2006) The proximity structure of achromatic colours and the impossibility of asymmetric lightness matching. Perception & Psychophysics, 68(1), 76-83.

Logvinenko A. D. & Hutchinson S. J. (2005) Evidence for the existence of colour mechanisms producing unique hues (blue, yellow, and green) as derived from a colour illusion based on spatio-chromatic interactions. (Submitted to Vision Research)

Logvinenko A. D. & Hutchinson S. J. (2005) An effect of luminance contrast on high-spatial-frequency tritanopia. Perception 35, 171-184.

Logvinenko A. D. (2005) Does luminance contrast determine lightness? Spatial Vision 18(3), 337-346.

Logvinenko A. D. & Hutchinson S. J. (2005) One blue channel or two? Perception, 34, 921-925.

Logvinenko A. D. (2005) On achromatic colour appearance. In: "AIC Colour 05. The 10th Congress of the International Colour Association. 8-13 May 2005, Granada, Spain. Proceedings book." Part 1. Eds J.L. Nieves and J. Hernanderez-Andres, pp. 639-642.

Logvinenko A. D. & Ross D. A. (2005) Adelson's tile and snake illusions: Helmholtzian type of simultaneous lightness contrast. Spatial Vision, 18(1), 25-72.

Logvinenko A. D., Adelson E. H., Ross D. A., & Somers D. (2005) Straightness as a cue for luminance edge classification. Perception & Psychophysics, 67(1), 120-128. View .pdf file

Logvinenko A. D. & Kane J. (2004) Hering’s and Helmholt's types of simultaneous lightness contrast. Journal of Vision, 4(12), 1102-1110./P>

Logvinenko A. D., Byth W., & Vityaev, E. E. (2004) In search of an elusive hard threshold: A test of observer’s ability to order sub-threshold stimuli. Vision Research, 44 287-296.

Logvinenko A. D. (2003) Method of quadratic approximation: A new approach to identification of analysers and channels in human vision. J. of Mathematical Psychology, 47 495-506.

Logvinenko A. D. (2003) A fair test of the effect of a shadow-incompatible luminance gradient on the simultaneous lightness contrast. Perception 32 717-720.

Logvinenko A. D. (2003) Reply to Bressan’s comment. Perception 32 723-725.

Logvinenko A. D. (2003) Does bandpass linear filter response predict gradient induction? A reply to Fred Kingdom. Perception 32(5), 621 ­ 626.

Logvinenko A. D. & Kane J. (2003) Luminance gradient can break background-independent lightness constancy. Perception 32 263-268.

Logvinenko A. D. (2002) The anchoring effect in lightness perception. Neuroscience Letters 334(1), 5-8. View .pdf file

Logvinenko A. D. & Steinman R. M. (2002) Fixation on fixation impedes cognition: Reply to Kohly & Ono. Spatial Vision 15(3), 387-391.

Logvinenko A. D., Tyurin Y. N. & Sawey M. (2002) Equi-discrimination contours around an achromatic colour are convex but not balanced. J. of Mathematical Psychology 46(4), 486-509.

Logvinenko A. D. (2002) Articulation in the context of edge classification. Perception 31, 201-207.

Logvinenko A. D., Kane J., & Ross D. A. (2002) Is lightness induction a pictorial illusion? Perception 31, 73-82.

Logvinenko A. D., Epelboim J., & Steinman R. M. (2001) The role of vergence in the perception of distance: Finally, a fair test of the Bishop Berkeley's claim. Spatial Vision 15, 77-97.

Logvinenko A. D (2001) High-spatial-frequency-tritanopia: filling-in or filtering-out? Perception 30 223-232.

Logvinenko A. D (1999) Lightness induction revisited. Perception 28(7), 803-816.

Logvinenko A. D (1998) On derivation of spectral sensitivities of the human cones from trichromatic colour matching functions. Vision Research, 38, 3207-3211.

Logvinenko A. D. (1997) Invariant relationship between achromatic colour, apparent illumination, and shape of surface: Implications for the colour perception theories. In: "John Dalton's Colour Vision Legacy" C. M. Dickinson, I. J. Murray and D. Carden Eds Taylor & Francis, London.

Logvinenko A. D. (1996) On cardinal directions in the spatial pattern space and falsifying multi-channel detection models. Spatial Vision, 10, 189-200.

Logvinenko A. D. (1996) Convexity of the threshold body implies a peak detector. Spatial Vision, 10, 105-123.

Logvinenko A. D. (1995) On deriving analyser characteristics from summation-at-threshold data. Biological Cybernetics, 73, 547-552.

Logvinenko A. D., Menshikova G. Ya. (1994) Trade-off between achromatic colour and perceived illumination as revealed by the use of pseudoscopic inversion of apparent depth. Perception, 23, 1007-1023.

Logvinenko A. D., Belopolsky V. I. (1994) Convergence as a cue for distance. Perception, 23, 207-217.

Logvinenko A. D. (1993) Perceptual equations: Implications for computer vision. The Irish Journal of Psychology, 14, 330-342.

Logvinenko A. D. (1993) Failure of convexity of some threshold curves for compound grating: Implications for the modern models of visual pattern detection. Biological Cybernetics, 70, 55-64.

Logvinenko A. D. (1990) Noninear analysis of spatial vision using first-and-second order Volterra transfer functions measurement. Vision Research, 30, 2031-2057.