CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Robert Francis HESS
Born: 13th June 1950
Citizenship: Canadian, Australian
Present Address: McGill Vision Research
Department of Ophthalmology
Montreal General Hospital
1650 Cedar Ave., Rm. L11.112
Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1A4
Homepage: http://mvr.mcgill.ca/Robert/rhess_home.html
Present position:
1990-present: Full Professor, McGill University
Director of Research, Department of Ophthalmology
Director, McGill Vision Research Unit
Department of Ophthalmology
Associate member: Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
Department of Psychology, McGill University
Previous faculty positions:
1982-90 Wellcome Senior Lecturer (Associate Prof. equivalent)
Department of Physiology,
University of Cambridge, UK
University Education:
1998 DSc. University of Aston, UK
1976 Ph.D. University of Melbourne, Australia.
1971 M.Sc University of Aston in Birmingham, UK
1970 AQIT. Queensland Institute of Technology
Fellowships awarded:
1978-82 Meres Senior Research Fellow for Medical Research
St. John's College, Cambridge University, UK
1977-78 Rotary International Fellow
Department of Physiology
University of Cambridge, UK
Other Distinctions & Awards
1983 The 7th Champness Medal of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers London, UK. Previous recipients: H B Barlow, J. Robson, R. Gregory.
1984-85 Research Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (non-stipendiary).
1985-90 Full Fellow of St. Catharine's College, University of Cambridge (non-stipendiary). Member of Governing Body.
1989 Edbridge-Green Research Medal of The Royal College of Surgeons (Lond). Previous Recipients: G. Wald, W. Rushton, A Hodgkin, J. Dowling, C. Blackmore.
1993 Sixth Clair Bobier Award in Vision, University of Waterloo, Canada.
1998 D.Sc. awarded by the University of Aston, UK
2003 The Distinguished Alumni Award, Queensland University of Technology.
2013 The H. B. Collin Medal, Australian Optometric Association
Current International Collaborations
Stereo
Drs Yi-Zhong Wang and Eileen Birch
The Retina Foundation of the South West
Dallas, TX, USA
Contrast Coding
Drs T Meese and M Georgeson
School of Health Sciences
Aston University, UK.
Cortical Coding
Dr S Dakin
Institute of Ophthalmology
London, UK.
Myopia
Dr K Schmidt
School of Optometry
Queensland University of Technology,
QLD, Australia.
Amblyopia
Dr O Ehrt
Munich Eye Clinic
Munich, Germany
Motion Processing
DR T Ledgeway
Dept. Psychology
University of Nottingham, UK.
MEG Brain Imaging
Dr G Barnes
Institute for Neurology
Queens Square, London,UK.
Animal behaviour
Dr D. Mitchell
Dept. Psychology
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada
Editorial Boards and Peer Review grant committees
1986-90 Member, Grants Committee for Vision Research for the Wellcome Trust, UK
1986-93 Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Clinical Vision Sciences.
1989 Member, The Welcome Trust steering committee for research in Ophthalmology
1993- Member, Editorial Board of Vision Research
1993- Member, Editorial Board of Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics
1994- Member, Editorial Board of Experimental and Clinical Optometry.
1991- Director and Founder, McGill Vision Research Unit, Dept. Ophthalmology
1997-99 Member, Canadian MRC Clinical Grants Committee.
1997-99 Member, Canadian MRC's Clinical Investigation Committee.
2000- Member, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK.
Peer reviewer: MRC (UK), Wellcome Trust, CIHR(Can), NSERC(Can), NIH, NEI(USA), ARC (Aust.)
Academic Planning and Governance
1986-90 Member, Steering Committee of the Applied Vision Unit City University, London, UK.
1986-93 Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Clinical Vision Sciences.
Member, the Welcome Trust steering committee for Research in Ophthalmology in the UK.
1991- Director and founder, McGill Vision Research Centre, Dept. Ophth. McGill University
1991- Member, Executive Committee, Dept. of Ophthalmolgy, McGill University
1991- Director of Research, Department of Ophthalmology.
2001- Member of Senate, McGill University.
2008- Member, MUHC CFI committee.
Current Grants Held
CIHR grants
Topic Period $$ (total) Position/CIHR type
POP 2009-12 150,000 PI Commercialization
Amblyopia 2013-16 245,000 PI Operating Canada/China
Amblyopia 2012-17 532,780 PI Operating
Brain Imaging 2008-13 895,249 PI Operating
Training 2008-12 1,440,000 Co-applicant (of 14)
NSERC grants
Topic Period $$ Position/NSERC type
I2I 2009-2010 130,000 PI commercialization
Motion 2012-17 345,000 PI Operating
Motion 2011-12 50,000 PI equipment
DOD grant
Topic Period $$ Position
TBI 2015-2018 1,130,000 PI
Current International collaborative grants
Canada/China CIHR Health operating grant $225,000 (2013-18) (China component)- co PI (ranked 1st in peer review).
New Zealand Health Research Council Emerging Researcher Grant. "Promoting neural plasticity to recover visual function in amblyopia", $168,700 (2009-14)- co PI with B. Thompson.
Auckland Medical Research Foundation. "The use of non-invasive brain stimulation as a therapeutic intervention for adult amblyopia", $106,292(2008-12)- co PI with B. Thompson
New Zealand National Institutes of Health RO1 Grant (USA). "Children with Hypoglycemia and their Later Development (The CHYLD Study)." US$1.8 million.(2011-14)- member of advisory board
UK EPSRC operating grant(EP/H000038/1) £648,319. (2009-13). The spatial integration and segmentation of luminance contrast in human spatial Vision. PIs Meese & Georgeson, RFH named collaborator.
Previous Grant Funding (1986- present)
CIHR Operating grants- neuroplasticity and amblyopia
Topic Period $$ (total) Position/CIHR type
Amblyopia 2006-10 530,000 PI Operating
Amblyopia 2001-06 576,241 PI Operating
Amblyopia 1996-01 608,502 PI Operating
Amblyopia 1993-96 294,854 PI Operating
Amblyopia 1990-93 242,000 PI Operating
Stereo 1998-01 102,928 Pi Operating
NSERC Discovery grants- normal visual processing
Topic Period $$ Source/type
Motion 2006-11 337,150 PI Operating
Motion 2001-06 335,000 PI Operating
Motion 1997-01 258,600 PI Operating
Motion 1993-97 236,000 PI Operating
Motion 1990-93 135,000 PI Operating
Motion 1990-91 21,100 PI Equipment
Selected Keynote, Invited and Named Lectures:
Ø International Symposium on Ophthalmological Optics, May 7-9 1979, Tokyo, Japan.
Ø Invited speaker, Symposium sponsored by The National Academy of Sciences on Clinical Applications of Visual Psychophysics, San Francisco, 1979.
Ø Keynote speaker at Strabismus Symposium, Annual Mid-West Ophthalmological and Orthoptic Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, 1979.
Ø Invited speaker, Symposium on Neuronal Mechanisms. Tegernsee, Germany, 1980.
Ø Ann. Meeting of the British Orthoptic Council, University of York, 1983.Keynote speaker.
Ø The Seventh Champness Lecture of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. London, UK, 1983.(Previous recipients; H B Barlow, J. Robson, R. Gregory)
Ø Keynote speaker , 1st International Optometric Congress, London, England, 1986.
Ø Invited speaker, Symposium Low Vision, University of Waterloo, Canada, 1986.
Ø Keynote speaker, 5th International Optometric Congress, Sydney, Australia, 1988..
Ø The Edridge-Green Lecture to the Royal College of Surgeons, London, England, 1989.
Ø Invited speaker, Fifth Annual Retina Research Foundation Symposium The Woodlands, Texas 1992.
Ø The Sixth Annual Clair Bobier Lecture, University of Waterloo, Waterloo. Ont. 1994.
Ø Centenary Conference of the British College of Optometrists, Cambridge, U.K. Chairman and Keynote speaker. 1995.
Ø Invited speaker, 25th Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium, Cambridge U.K. 1995,
Ø The Centenary Lecture at the Centenary celebrations of Aston University, UK, 1995.
Ø Symposium on Amblyopia Novartis Foundation, London. UK. 1999.
Ø Invited speaker, The 6th International Ophthalmological Congress, London, UK, 2000.
Ø Invited speaker, International Symposium on “Timing in the Neocortex”, University of Montana. 2001.
Ø Invited speaker, 25th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Melbourne Australia, 2004.
Ø Keynote speaker, Annual Meeting German Strabismological Association, Munich June 2004.
Ø The Noel Verney Memorial lecture. Australian Optometric Association, QLD Australia, 2006.
Ø The Lloyd Morgan lecture, Dept. Ophthalmology, Hospital for sick children, Toronto. 2008
Ø The Martin J Steinbach lecture at the University of Toronto, 2010.
Ø Invited speaker, Amblyopia Symposium, City University, London Sept. 2010
Ø Invited speaker, Plastic vision symposium, York University,Canada, 2011.
Ø Invited speaker, Second World Congress of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (WCPOS).
Trainees
1982-1990
Jane Boulton (PhD student)
Jonathan Pointer (postdoc)
Stephen Anderson (postdoc)
Robert Jacobs (postdoc)
Dale Allen (postdoc)
Ian Holliday (postdoc)
Richard Harrad (MD student)
Gordon Plant (MD student)
Sam Malin (PhD student)
1990-1993
Stephen C. Dakin (postdoc)
Tony Hayes (postdoc)
Sarah Waugh (postdoc)
Jim McCarthy (postdoc)
Laurie Wilcox (postdoc)
Steven Halman (summer student)
1993-1996
Rita Demanins (PhD student)
Jovkar (summer student)
Sue Doshi (summer student)
Karren Dobbins (summer student
Eric Fredericksen (postdoc)
David Keeble (postdoc)
Frans Verstraten (postdoc)
1996-1999
Cris Williams (postdoc)
Steve Dakin (postdoc)
Lyn Ziegler (postdoc)
Yi-Zhong Wang (postdoc)
Neil Kapoor (summer student)
Marc Tewfik (summer student)
1999- 2002
Tim Ledgeway (postdoc)
Serge Dumoulin (PhD student)
Rebecca Achtman (PhD student)
Gareth Barnes (postdoc)
Nick Scott-Samuels (postdoc)
Oliver Ehrt (postdoc)
K. Sher (summer student)
S. Seggab (summer student)
Michael Tong (summer student)
2002-2005
Richard Watson (postdoc)
Bezhad Mansouri (PhD student)
Pi-Chun Huang (PhD student)
Serge Dumoulin (postdoc)
David Ellemberg (postdoc)
Harriet Allen (postdoc)
Pierre Charles (summer student)
Michael Wang (summer student)
2005-2008
Ben Thompson (postdoc)
Craig Aaen-Stockdale (postdoc)
Bruce Hansen (postdoc)
Xingfeng Lee (postodc)
Bezhad Mansouri (postdoc)
Pi-Chun Huang (Phd student)
Reza Farivar (postdoc)
2008-2012
Jiawei Zhou (postdoc)
Jesse Husk(postdoc)
Nirel Wirtz (MSc student)
Simon Clavagnier (postdoc)
Allexandre Reynaud (postdoc)
Goro Maehara (postdoc)
Pi-chun Huang (postdoc)
Alex Baldwin (external PhD student)
Peng Zhang (MSc student)
Raiju Jacob Babu(postdoc)
Daniel Baker (postdoc)
Jingrong Li (external graduate student)
Akash Chima (external graduate student)
PUBLICATIONS
Journal publications
1971
1. Hess, R.F. (1971) An appraisal of the prognosis and treatment for a functional cure of horizontal concomitant strabismus. Aust. J. Optom. 54, 129-148.
1974
2. Hess, R.F., Harding, G.F.A. and Drasdo, N. (1974) Seizures induced by flickering light. Amer. J. Optom. & Physiol. Opt. 54, 517-529.
3. Hess, R.F. (1974) The electro-oculogram, a new test of retinal metabolic function. Aust. J. Optom. 57, 4-13.
1977
4. Hess, R.F. and Howell, E.R. (1977) Contrast sensitivity function in squint amblyopia. Evidence for a two group classification. Vision Res. 17, 1049-1055.
5. Hess, R.F. and Garner, L.F. (1977) The effect of corneal oedema on visual function. Invest. Ophthal. 16, 5-13.
6. Hess, R.F. (1977) Assessment of stimulus field-size factors in strabismic amblyopia. Amer. J. Optom. & Physiol. Opt. 54, 292-299.
7. Hess, R.F. and Smith, G. (1977) Experiments bearing upon the hypothesis that exaggerated higher-order aberrations contribute to visual loss in strabismic amblyopia. Amer. J. Optom. & Physiol. Opt. 54, 627-633.
8. Hess, R.F. (1977) Eye movements and grating acuity in strabismic amblyopia. Ophthal. Res. 9, 225-237.
9. Hess, R.F. (1977) Accommodative accuracy in strabismic amblyopia. Aust. J. Optom. 60, 295-298.
10. Hess, R.F. (1977) On the relationship between eccentric fixation and strabismic amblyopia. Brit. J. Ophthal. 61, 767-773.
1978
11. Howell, E.R. and Hess, R.F. (1978) The functional area for summation to thresholds for sinusoidal gratings. Vision Res. 18, 369-374.
12. Hess, R.F., Howell, E.R. and Kitchin, J. (1978) On the relationship between pattern and movement sensitivity in strabismic amblyopia. Vision Res. 18,
350-379.
13. Hess, R.F. and Howell, E.R. (1978) The influence of field size for a periodic stimulus in strabismic amblyopia. Vision Res. 18, 501-503.
14. Hess, R.F. and Woo, G. (1978) Vision through cataracts. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 17, 428-435.
15. Hess, R.F. and Howell, E.R. (1978) The luminance dependent nature of strabismic amblyopia. Vision Res. 18, 931-936.
16. Hess, R.F., Jacobs, R. and Vingry, L. (1978) Central versus peripheral vision. Amer. J. Optom. & Physiol. Opt. 55, 610-614.
17. Banks, R., Campbell, F.W., Hess, R.F. and Watson, P. (1978) A new treatment for amblyopia. Brit. J. Orthop. 35, 1-12.
18. Campbell, F.W., Hess, R.F., Watson, P. and Banks, R. (1978) Preliminary results of a physiologically based treatment of amblyopia. Brit. J. Ophthal. 62,
748-755.
19. Hess, R.F., Campbell, F.W. and Greenhalgh, T. (1978) On the nature of the neural abnormality in human amblyopia; neural aberrations and neural sensitivity loss. Pflügers Arch. Physiol. 377, 201-207.
1979
20. Hess, R.F. and Jacobs, R.J. (1979) A preliminary report of a acuity and contour interactions across the amblyope's visual field. Vision Res. 19, 1403-1408.
21. Hess, R.F. and Carney, L. (1979) Vision through an abnormal cornea. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 18, 476-483.
22. Woo, G. and Hess, R.F. (1979) Contrast sensitivity function and soft contact lenses. Inter. Contact Lens J. 37, 171-176.
23. Hess, R.F. (1979) Strabismic and anisometropic amblyopia: an invited review. Aust. J. Optom. 62, 3-18.
1980
24. Hess, R.F., Campbell, F.W. and Zimmern, R. (1980) Differences in the neural basis of human amblyopia: the effect of mean luminance. Vision Res. 20,
295-305.
25. Hess, R.F. (1980) Contrast sensitivity assessment of functional amblyopia in humans. Trans. Ophthal. Soc. U.K. XCIX (III), 391-397.
26. Hess, R.F. (1980) Neural function and dysfunction in amblyopia: Part I. Spatial "channels". Vision Res. 20, 749-754.
27. Hess, R.F. and Campbell, F.W. (1980) Neural function and dysfunction in amblyopia: Part I. Activity within an amblyopic "channel". Vision Res. 20,
755-756.
28. Hess, R.F. (1980) Neural function and dysfunction in amblyopia: Part II. Activity between amblyopic "channels". Vision Res. 20, 757-760.
29. Hess, R.F. and Jenkins, S. (1980) The non acuity defect in amblyopia: comparison of threshold and suprathreshold function. Perception 9, 569-576.
30. Hess, R.F. and Bradley, A. (1980) Contrast coding in amblyopia is only minimally impaired above threshold. Nature 287, 463-464.
1981
31. Hess, R.F., France, T. and Keesey, U. (1981) Residual vision in humans deprived of pattern vision in early life. Exp. Brain Res. 44, 295-311.
1982
32. Hess, R.F. (1982) Developmental sensory impairment, amblyopia or tarachopia. Human Neurobiol. 1, 17-29.
33. Lawden, M., Hess, R.F. and Campbell, F.W. (1982) The discriminability of spatial phase relationships in amblyopia. Vision Res. 22, 1005-1016.
1983
34. Hess, R.F., Bradley, A. and Piotrowski, L. (1983) Contrast coding in amblyopia. I. Differences in the neural basis of human amblyopia.
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 217, 309-330.
35. Hess, R.F. (1983) Contrast coding in amblyopia. I. On the physiological basis of contrast recruitment. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 217, 331-340.
36. Hess, R.F. and Plant, G. (1983) The effect of temporal frequency variation on contrast threshold deficits in optic neuritis. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. and Psychiat. 46, 322-330.
37. Hess, R.F. (1983) Contrast vision and optic neuritis: neural blurring. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. and Psychiat. 46, 1023-1030.
1984
38. Hess, R.F. and Baker, C.L. (Jr) (1984) The human pattern-evoked electroretinogram. J. Neurophysiol. 51, 939-951.
39. Baker, C.L. (Jr) and Hess, R.F. (1984) Linear and nonlinear components of the human electroretinogram. J. Neurophysiol. 51, 952-967.
40. Hess, R.F. and Baker, C.L. (Jr) (1984) The pattern ERG in severely amblyopic eyes. Vision Res. 24, 1367-1376.
41. Hess, R.F. (1984) On the assessment of contrast threshold functions for anomalous vision. Brit. Orthop. J. 41, 1-14.
1985
42. Hess, R.F., Woo, G. and White, P.G. (1985) Contrast attenuation characteristics of iris clipped intraocular lens implants in situ. Brit. Journal Ophthal.
69, 129-134.
43. Hess, R.F., Baker, C.L. (Jr), Verhoeve, J., Tulanay-Kessey, U. and France, T.D. (1985). The pattern evoked electroretinogram: its variability in normals and its relationship to amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 26, 1610-1623.
44. Plant, G. and Hess, R.F. (1985) Temporal frequency discrimination in patients suffering from optic neuritis. Brain 108, 647-676.
45. Moore, B.C.J., Glasberg, B.R., Hess, R.F. and Birchell, J.P. (1985) Effects of flanking noise on the rate of growth of loudness of tones in normal and recruiting ears. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 77, (4), 1505-1513.
46. Hess, R.F. and Plant, G.T. (1985) Temporal frequency discrimination in human vision: evidence for one or more additional channels in the low spatial and high temporal frequency range. Vision Res. 25, 1493-1500.
47. Hess, R.F. and Pointer, J.S. (1985) Differences in the neural basis of human amblyopia: The distribution of the anomaly across the visual field. Vision Res. 25, 1577-1594.
1986
48. Hess, R.F., Zrenner, E. and Baker, C.L. (Jr) (1986) Fundamental differences between the electroretinogram of cat and primate. J. Neurophysiol. 56,
(3) 1-22.
49. Plant, G.T., Hess, R.F. and Thomas, S.J. (1986) The pattern evoked electroretinogram in optic neuritis. Brain 109, 496-490.
50. Hess, R.F. and Nordby, K. (1986) Spatial and temporal limits of vision in the achromat. J. Physiol. (Lond) 371, 365-385.
51. Hess, R.F. and Nordby, K. (1986) Spatial and temporal properties of human rod vision in the achromat. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 371, 387-406.
52. Watt, R.J. and Hess, R.F. (1986) Spatial information and uncertainty in anisometropic amblyopia. Vision Res. 27, 661-674.
53, Hess, R.F. and Pointer, J.S. (1986) Evidence for local spatial computations underlying discrimination of periodic stimuli. Vision Res. 27, 1343-1360.
1987
54. Plant, G.T. and Hess, R.F. (1987) Regional threshold contrast sensitivity within the central visual field in optic neuritis. Brain 110, 489-515.
55. Hess, R.F., Nordby, K. and Pointer, J.S. (1987) Regional variation of contrast sensitivity across the retina of the achromat: normal limits of human rod vision. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 388, 101-119.
1988
56. Kersten, D., Hess, R.F. and Plant, G.T. (1988) Assessing contrast sensitivity behind cloudy media. Clin. Vision Sci. 2, (3) 143-158.
57. Baker, C.L., Hess, R.F., Olson, B.T. and Zrenner, E. (1988) Current source density analysis of linear and nonlinear components of the primate electroretinogram. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 407, 155-176.
58. Hess, R.F. and Howell, E.R. (1988) Detection of low spatial frequencies. A single filter or multiple filters? Ophthal. & Physiol. Opt. 8, 378-386.
59. Hess, R.F. (1988) The visual deficit in optic neuritis. Clin. and Expl. Optom. 71, 3-10.
1989
60. Hess, R.F. and Pointer, J.S. (1989) Spatial and temporal contrast sensitivity in hemianopia: A comparative study of sighted and blind hemifields. Brain 112, 187-194.
61. Hess, R.F., Pointer, J.S. and Watt, R. (1989) How are spatial filters used in fovea and parafovea? J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6, 329-339.
62. Hess, R.F., Baker, C.L. and Zihl, J. (1989) The "motion-blind" patient: Low level spatial and temporal filters. J. Neurosci. 9, (5) 1628-1640.
63. Pointer, J.S. and Hess, R.F. (1989) The contrast sensitivity gradient across the human visual field: with emphasis on the low spatial frequency range. Vision Res. 29, 1133-1151.
64. Hess, R.F., Mullen, K.T. and Zrenner, E. (1989) The receptoral mechanisms in a typical achromatopsia. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 419, 123-149.
65. Hess, R.F., Mullen, K.T. and Zrenner, E. (1989) Vision in humans with only short wavelength cone receptors: post receptoral properties. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 419, 150-175.
1990
66. Pointer, J.S. and Hess, R.F. (1990) The contrast sensitivity gradient across the major oblique meridia of the human visual field. Vision Res. 30, 497-501.
67. Boulton, J.C. and Hess, R.F. (1990) Luminance contrast and motion detection. Vision Res. 30, 175-179.
68. Boulton, J.C. and Hess, R.F. (1990) The optimal displacement for the detection of motion. Vision Res. 30, 1101-1106.
69. Hess, R.F., Zihl, J., Pointer, J.S. and Schmid, C. (1990) The contrast sensitivity deficit in cases with cerebral lesions. Clin. Vis. Sci. 5, 203-216.
70. Hess, R.F. (1990) The Edridge-Green Lecture. Vision at low light levels; role of spatial, temporal and contrast filters. Ophthal. Physiol. Opt. 10, 351-359.
71. Hess, R.F. and Watt, R.J. (1990) Regional distribution of the mechanisms that underlie spatial localization. Vision Res. 30, 1020-1032.
72. Anderson, S.J., & Hess, R.F. (1990) An illusory motion percept in human peripheral vision provides evidence for spatial undersampling. Vision Res. 30, 1507-1516.
1991
73. Hess, R.F. (1991) The site and nature of suppression in strabismic amblyopia. Vision Res. 31, 111-118.
74. Baker, C.L., Hess, R.F. and Zihl, J. (1991) Residual motion perception in a "motion-blind" patient, assessed with limited lifetime random dot stimuli. J. Neurosci. 11, 454-461.
75. Hess, R.F. (1991) The site and nature of suppression in squint amblyopia. Vision Res. 31, 111-117.
76. Anderson, S.J., Mullen, K.T. and Hess, R.F. (1991) Human peripheral spatial resolution for achromatic and chromatic stimuli: limits imposed by optical and retinal factors. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 442, 47-64.
1992
77. Hess, R.F. and Snowden, R.J. (1992) Temporal properties of human visual filters: number, shapes and spatial covariation. Vision Res. 32, 47-59.
78. Snowden, R.J. and Hess, R.F. (1992) Temporal frequency filters in the human peripheral visual field. Vision Res. 32, 61-72.
79. Hess, R.F., Mullen, K.T. and Nordby, K. (1992) Mutual rod-cone suppression within the central visual field. Ophthal. Physiol. Opt., 12(2), 183-188.
80. Allen, D. and Hess, R.F. (1992). Is the visual field temporally homogeneous? Vision Res. 32, 1075-1084.
81. Hess, R.F. and Holliday, I.E. (1992). The coding of spatial position by the human visual system: effects of spatial scale and contrast. Vision Res. 32,
1085-1097.
82. Hess, R.F. and Holliday, I.E. (1992). The spatial localization deficits in amblyopia. Vision Res. 32, 1319-1339.
83. Harrad, R. and Hess, R. (1992). A model for suppression in amblyopia. In: Transactions, Vol. 20, European Strabismological Association, Ed. Herbert Kaufman, pp. 113-118.
84. Harrad, R.A. and Hess, R.F. (1992). Binocular integration of contrast information in amblyopia. Vision Res. 32, 2135-2150.
1993
85. Field, D.J., Hayes, A. and Hess, R.F. (1993). Contour integration by the human visual system: evidence for a local "association field". Vision Res. 33,
173-193.
86. Hess, R.F. and Anderson, S.J. (1993). Motion sensitivity and spatial undersampling in amblyopia. Vision Res. 33, 881-896.
87. Hess, R.F. and Hayes, A. (1993). Neural recruitment explains "Weber's Law" of spatial position. Vision Res. 33, 1673-1684.
88. Hess, R.F. and Field, D. (1993). Is the increased spatial uncertainty in the normal periphery due to spatial undersampling or uncalibrated disarray? Vision. Res. 33 2663-2670.
1994
89. Smith, A.T., Hess, R.F. and Baker Jr. C.L. (1994). Direction identification thresholds for second order motion in central and peripheral vision. J. Opt. Soc. Am. 11(2) 506-514.
90. Hess, R.F. and Hayes, A. (1994). The coding of spatial position by the human visual system: effects of spatial scale and retinal eccentricity. Vision Res. 34 625-643.
91. Waugh, S.J. and Hess, R.F. (1994). Suprathreshold temporal-frequency discrimination in the fovea and the periphery. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 11(4) 1199-1212.
92. Barbur, J.L, Hess, R.F. and Pinney, H.D. (1994). Pupillary function in human amblyopia. J. Ophthal. Physiol. Opt. 14, 139-149.
93. Hess R.F. and Wilcox, L.M. (1994). Linear and non-linear filtering in stereopsis. Vision Res. 34 2431-2438.
94. Hess, R.F., Dakin, S.R.G. and Badcock, D. (1994). Localization of element clusters by the human visual system. Vision Res. 34, 2439-2451.
95. Hess, R.F. and McCarthy, J. (1994). Topological disorder in peripheral vision. Visual Neuroscience. 11, 1033-1036.
96. Hess, R.F. and Field, R.F. (1994). Is the spatial deficit in strabismic amblyopia due to loss of cells or an uncalibrated disarray of cells? Vision Res. 34,
3397-3406.
1995
97. Bex, P.J., Brady, N., Fredericksen, R.E. and Hess, R.F. (1995). Energetic motion detection.Nature, 378 (658) 670-671.
98. Hess, R.F. (1995) Amblyopia: a tale of two approaches. Ophthal. Physiol. Opt. 15, 395-397.
99. Hess, R.F. and Badcock, D.R. (1995). Metric for separation discrimination by the human visual system. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12, 3-16.
100. Hess, R.F. and Doshi, M. (1995). Adaptation to spatial offsets. Perception, 24; 1407-1426.
101. Hess, R.F. and Field, D.J. (1995). Contour integration across depth. Vision Res. 35, 1699-1711.
102. Snowden, R.J., Hess, R.F. and Waugh, S.J. (1995). The processing of temporal modulation at different levels of retinal illuminance. Vision Res. 35 775-789.
103. Wilcox, L.M. and Hess, R.F. (1995). Dmax for stereopsis depends on size, not spatial frequency content. Vision Res. 35, 1061-1069.
1996
104. Wilcox, L.M. and Hess, R.F. (1996). Is the site of non-linear filtering in stereopsis before or after binocular combination? Vision Res. 36, 391-399.
105. Hess, R.F., Waugh, S.J. and Nordby, K. (1996). Rod temporal channels. Vision Res. 36, 613-619.
106. Mullen, K.T., Sankeralli, M.J. and Hess, R.F. (1996). Color and luminance vision in human amblyopia: shifts in isoluminance, contrast sensitivity losses, and positional deficits. Vision Res. 36, 645-653.
107. Demanins, R. and Hess, R.F. (1996). Positional loss in strabismic amblyopia: Inter-relationship of accuracy, bias, spatial scale and eccentricity. Vision Res. 36, 2771-2794.
108. Badcock, D.R., Hess, R.F. and Dobbins, K. (1996). Localisation of element clusters: multiple cues. Vision Res. 36; 1467-1472.
109. Demanins, R. and Hess, R.F. (1996). Effect of exposure duration on spatial uncertainty in normal and amblyopic eyes. Vision Research 36; 1189-1193.
110. Hess, R.F. (1996) Is Amblyopia an impediment to binocular function? Eye. 10; 245-249.
111. Hess, R.F. and Holliday, I. (1996) Primitives used in the spatial localization of non-abutting stimuli: Peaks or Centroids. Vision Res. 36, 3821-3826.
1997
112. Dakin S. & Hess R F (1997) The spatial mechanisms mediating symmetry perception. Vision Res. 37, 2915-2930.
113. Fredericksen, R.E. and Hess, R.F. (1997). Temporal detection in human vision – dependence on stimulus energy. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 14, 2557-2569.
114. Hess, R.F. & Dakin, S.C. (1997). Absence of contour linking in peripheral vision. Nature, 390, 602-604.
115. Hess R F, Demanins R and Bex P (1997). A reduced motion aftereffect in strabismic amblyopia. Vision Res. 37, 1303-1311.
116. Hess R F, Hayes A and Kingdom F A (1997) Integrating contours within and through depth. Vision Res. 37, 691-696.
117. Hess R F, McIlhagga W and Field D J (1997) Contour integration in strabismic amblyopia: sufficiency of an explanation based on positional uncertainty. Vision Res. 37, 3145-3162.
118. Wang Y, Hess R F and Baker C L (1997) Second order motion in peripheral vision: the limits of optical and neural filtering. J Opt Soc. Am. A. 14 (12), 3145-3154.
119. Wilcox L M and Hess R F (1997) Scale selection for 2nd order stereopsis. Vision Res. 37, 2981-2992.
120. Ziegler L and Hess R F (1997). Depth perception during diplopia is direct. Peception 26, 1225-1230.
1998
121. Allen D, Hess R F and Nordby K (1998). Is the rod visual field temporally homogeneous? Vision Research 38,3927-3931.
122. Baker C L and Hess R F (1998) Two mechanisms underlie the processing of stochastic motion stimuli. Vision Research. 38, 1211-1222.
123. Fredericksen, R.E. and Hess, R.F. (1998) Estimating multiple temporal mechanisms in human vision. Vision Research 38, 1023-1040.
124. Hess R F, Fredericksen R E, Bex P and Brady N (1998). Is human motion detection subserved by a single or multiple channel mechanism? Vision Research. 38, 259-266.
125. Dakin S C and Hess R F (1998) Spatial frequency tuning of visual contour integration. J Opt Soc Am A 15, (6), 1486-1499.
126. Hess R F, Dakin S C and Field D J (1998) The role of “contrast enhancement” in the detection and appearance of visual contours. Vision Research 38,
783-788.
127. Hess R F and Demanins R (1998) Contour integration in anisometropic amblyopia. Vision Research 38, 889-894.
128. Keeble D R T and Hess R F (1998) Orientation masks 3-gabor alignment performance. Vision Research. 38, 827-840.
129. Wilcox L M and Hess R F (1998). When stereopsis does not improve with increasing contrast. Vision Research 38, 3671-3679.
130. Williams C B and Hess R F (1998). Relationship between facilitation at threshold and suprathreshold contour integration. J Opt Soc. Am A 15,
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1999
131. Demanins R, Wang Y-I, and Hess R F (1999) The neural deficit in strabismic amblyopia: sampling considerations. Vision Research 39, 3575-3585.
132. Hess R F and Dakin S C (1999) Contour integration in the peripheral field. Vision Research. 39, 947-959.
133. Hess, R.F., Baker, Jr., C.L. and Wilcox, L.M. (1999). Comparison of motion and stereopsis: linear and nonlinear performance. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 16,
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134. Hess, R.F., Wang, Y.-Z. & Dakin, S.C. (1999). Are judgements of circularity local or global? Vision Res. 39, 4354-4360.
135. Hess R F, Wang Y-I, Demanins R, Wilkinson F and Wilson H R A (1999) Deficit for global shape detection in amblyopia. Vision Research 39, 901-914.
135. Hess R F, Kingdom F A A and Ziegler L (1999) On the relationship between the spatial channels for luminance and disparity processing. Vision Research. 39, 557-566
137. Ziegler L and Hess R F (1999) Stereoscopic depth but not shape perception from second-order processing. Vision Research 39, 1491-1509.
138. Dakin S and Hess R F (1999) Contour integration and scale combination processes in visual edge detection. Spatial Vision 12, 309-327.
139. Demanins R, Hess R F, Williams C B and Keeble D R T (1999) The Orientation Discrimination Deficit in Strabismic Amblyopia Depends Upon Stimulus Bandwidth Vision Research (39, 4018-4031.
140. Fredericksen, R.E. & Hess, R.F. (1999). Temporal detection in human vision: dependence on spatial frequency. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 16, 2601-2624.
141. Keeble, D.R.T. and Hess, R.F. (1999). Discriminating local continuity in curved figures. Vision Res. 39, 3287-3299.
142. Ziegler, .L.R. and Hess, R.F. (1999). Stereoscopic depth but not shape perception from second-order stimuli. Vision Res. 39, 1491-1507.
143. Ziegler L, Hess R F & Kingdom F A A (1999) What global factor determines Dmax for shape-from-stereo. Vision Research 40, 493-502.
144. Ziegler, L., Kingdom, F. A. A. and Hess R. F.(1999) What local factors determine the maximum disparity for seeing cyclopean surface shape. Vision Research 40, 1157-1165.
145. Dakin, S. C., Williams, C. W. and Hess R. F. (1999) The interaction of first and second-order cues to orientation. Vision Research 39, 2867-2884.
146. Hess, R. F., Baker, C. L. Jr and Wilcox, L. M. (1999) Comparison of motion and stereo: linear and non-linear performance. J Opt. Soc. Am. A 16,987-994.
2000
147. Achtman, R.L, Hess, R.F. & Wang, Y.-Z. (2000) Regional sensitivity for shape discrimination. Spatial Vision 13(4), 377-391.
148. Field, D.J., Hayes, A. and Hess, R.F. (2000). The role of polarity and symmetry in the perceptual grouping of contour fragments. Spatial Vision 13, 51-66.
149. Hess, R.F., Dakin, S.C., Kapoor, N (2000). The foveal 'crowding' effect: physics or physiology?, Vision Research 40 (4) pp. 365-370.
150. Hess, R.F., Dakin, S.C., Kapoor, N. & Tewfik, M. (2000). Contour interaction in fovea and periphery. . J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 17, 1516-1524.
151. Hess, R.F., Ledgeway, T. & Dakin, S.C. (2000) Improverished 2nd order input to global linking in human vision. Vision Res. 40, 3309-3318.
152. Hess, R.F. and Ziegler, L.R. (2000). What limits the contribution of second-order motion to the perception of surface shape? Vision Res. 40, 2125-2133.
153. Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2000). The properties of the motion-detecting mechanism mediating perceived direction in stochastic displays. Vision Res. 40, 3585-3597.
154. McColl, S.L., Ziegler, L. & Hess, R.F. (2000). Stereodeficient subjects demonstrate non-linear stereopsis. Vision Res. 40, 1167-1177.
155. Wilcox. L.M., Elder, J.H. & Hess, R.F. (2000). The effects of blur and size on monocular and stereoscopic localization. Vision Res. 40, 3575-3584.
156. Ziegler, L.R., Hess, R.F. & Kingdom, F.A.A. (2000). Global factors that determine the maximum disparity for seeing cyclopean surface shape. Vision Res. 40, 493-502.
157. Ziegler, L.R., Kingdom, F.A.A. & Hess, R.F. (2000). Local luminance factors that determine the maximum disparity for seeing cyclopean surface shape. Vision Res. 40, 1157-1165.
2001
158. Barnes, G.R., Hess, R.F., Dumoulin, S.O., Achtman, R.L. and Pike, G.B (2001) the cortical deficit in humans with strabismic amblyopia. J. Physiol. 533, 281- 297.
159. Dumoulin, S.O., Baker, C.L. Jr., & Hess, R.F. (2001). A centrifugal bias for 2nd-order but not 1st-order motion. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 18(9) 2179-2189.
160. Hess, R.F., Beaudot, W.H. and Mullen, K.T.(2001) Dynamics of contour integration. Vision Res. 41, 1023-1037.
161. Hess, R. F., Dakin, S. C., Tewfik, M and Brown, B.(2001) Contour interaction in amblyopia" scale selection. Vision Res. 41, 2285-2296.
162. Hess, R.F., Achtman, R.L. & Wang, Y.-Z. (2001). Detection of contrast-defined shape. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 18(9) 2220-2227.
163. Hess, R.F., Williams, C.B. & Chaudhry, A. (2001). Contour interaction for an easily resolvable stimulus. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 18, 2414-2418.
164. Kingdom, F.A.A., Ziegler, L.R. & Hess, R.F. (2001) Luminance spatial scale facilitates stereoscopic depth segmentation. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 18(5) 993-1002.
165. Meese, T.S., Hess, R.F. & Williams. C.B. (2001). Spatial coherence does not affect contrast discrimination for multiple Gabor stimuli. Perception, 30,
1411-1422.
166. Scott-Samuel, N.E. & Hess, R.F. (2001). What does the Ternus display tell us about motion processing in human vision? Perception, 30, 1179-1188.
167. Hess, R.F. (2001). Amblyopia: Site Unseen. Australian Journal of Experimental Optometry. 84(6), 321-336.
2002
168. Dakin, S.C., Hess, R.F., Ledgeway, T. and Achtman, R.L. (2002). What causes non-monotonic tuning of fMRI response to noisy images? Current Biology, 12, R476-477.
169. Hess, R.F. & Fredericksen, R.E. (2002). Temporal detection in human vision: dependence on eccentricity. Ophthal. physiol. Opt. 22, 92-102.
170. Hess, R.F., Liu, C.H. & Wang, Y.-Z. (2002). Luminance spatial scale and local stereo-sensitivity. Vision Res. 42(3), 331-342.
171. Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2002). Failure of direction identification for briefly presented second-order motion stimuli: evidence for weak direction selectivity of the mechanisms encoding motion. Vision Res. 42, 1739-1758.
172. Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2002). Rules for combining the outputs of local motion detectors to define simple contours. Vision Res. 42(5), 653-659.
173. Scott-Samuel, N.E. & Hess, R.F. (2002). Orientation sensitivity in human visual motion processing. Vision Res. 42(5), 613-620.
174. Ellemberg, D., Hess, RF., & Arsenault, A.S. (2002). Lateral interactions in amblyopia, Vision Res. 42, 2471-2478.
2003
175. Achtman, R.L., Hess, R.F. & Wang, Y.-Z. (2003) Sensitivity for global shape detection. J. Vision, 3(10), 616-624.
176. Allen, H.A, Hess, R.F., Mansouri, B. & Dakin, S. (2003) Integration of first and second-order orientation. . J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 20, 974-986.
177. Dumoulin, S.O., Hoge, R.D., Baker Jr., Curtis L., Hess, R.F., Achtman, I. & Evans, A.C. (2003). Automatic volumetric segmentation of human visual retinotopic cortex. NeuroImage, 18, 576-587.
178. Ehrt, O., Hess, R.F., Williams, C.B. & Sher, K. (2003). Foveal contrast thresholds exhibit spatial-frequency- and polarity-specific contour interactions. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 20, 11-17.
179. Hess, R.F., Chang, Hong Liu & Wang, Y.-Z. (2003) Differential binocular input and local stereopsis. Vision Res. 43, 2303-2313.
180. Hess, R.F. & Ledgeway (2003) The detection of direction-defined and speed-defined spatial contours: one mchanism or two? Vision Res. 43, 597-606.
181. Hess, R.F., Pointer, J.S., Simmers, A. & Bex, P. (2003). Border distinctness in amblyopia. Vision Res. 43, 2255-2264.
182. Simmers, A., Hess, R.F. & Bex, P. (2003). Perceived blur in amblyopia. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 44,1395-1400.
183. Hess, R.F., Barnes, G., Dumoulin, S.O. & Dakin, S.C. (2003) How many positions can we perceptually encode, one or many? Vision Res. 43, 1575-1587.
184. Simmers, A.J., Ledgeway, T., Hess, R.F. & McGraw, P.V. (2003). Deficits to global motion processing in human amblyopia. Vision Res. 43, 729-738.
185. Dumoulin, S.O., Baker, Jr., C.L., Hess, R.F. & Evans, A.C. (2003) Cortical specialization for processing first-and second-order motion. Cerebral Cortex. 13(12), 1327-1385.
186. Hess, R.F & Hayes, A. (2003) Contour Integration and cortical processing. J. Physiol. (Paris) 97, 105-119.
187. Hess, R.F. & Malin, S. (2003) Threshold vision in amblyopia: orientation and phase. Invest. Ophthal . & Vis. Sci. 44(110, 4762-71.
2004
188. Meese, T. S. & Hess, R. F. (2004) Low spatial frequencies are suppressively masked across spatial scale, orientation, field position, and eye of origin. Journal of Vision, 4, 843-859.
189. Ellemberg, D, Allen, H. A. & Hess, R F (2004) Lateral contrast interactions for first- and second-order stimuli. Vision Research. 44, 1787-1794.
190. Allen, H. A., Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R. F. (2004) Poor encoding of position by contrast-defined motion. Vision Research. 44, 1985-1999.
191. Mansouri, B , Allen, H.A, Hess, R.F. & Dakin, S. (2004) Integration of orientation information in amblyopia. . Vision Research. 44, 2955-2969.
192. Mansouri, B., Allen, H. A., Hess R. F. , & Dakin, S. & Ehrt, O. (2004) Integration, segregation and binocular combination. JOSA , 44(25), 2955-69.
2005
193. Constantinescu, T., Schmidt, L., Watson, R. & Hess, R.F. (2005). A residual deficit for global motion processing after acuity recovery in deprivation amblyopia. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 46, 3008-03012.
194. Ehrt, O. & Hess, R.F., (2005). Foveal contour interaction: detection and discrimination. J. Opt. Soc. Am.A. 22(2), 209-216.
195. Gingras, G., Mitchell, D.E, & Hess, R.F. (2005). The spatial localization deficit in visually deprived kittens. Vision Res. 45, 975-989.
196. Gingras, G., Mitchell, D.E, & Hess, R.F. (2005). Haphazard neural connections underlie the visual deficits of cats with strabismic or deprivation amblyopia. European Journal of Neuroscience, 22, 119-124.
197. Ledgeway, T., Hess, r.F. & Geisler, W.S. (2005). Grouping local orientation and direction signals to extract spatial contours: Empirical tests of “assocation field” models of contour integration. Vision Research, 45(19), 2511-2522.
198. Mansouri, B., Allen, H.A. & Hess, R.F. (2005). Detection, discrimination and integration of second-order orientation information in strabismic and anisometropic amblyopia. Vision Research, 45(18), 2449-2460.
199. Mansouri, B., Hess, R.F., Allen, H.A & Dakin S.C. (2005). Integration, segration and binocular combination. J. Optical Soc. of America 22(1), 38-48.
200. Meese, T. S. & Hess, R. F. (2005) Interocular suppression is gated by interocular feature matching. Vision Res. 45, 9-15.
201. Meese, T.S., Hess, R.F. & Williams, C.B. (2005). Size matters, but not for everyone: individual differences for contrast discrimination. J. Vision, 5, 928- 947.
202. Simmers, A.J., Ledgeway, T., Hess, R.F. & McGraw, P.V. (2005). The influences of visibility and anomalous integration processes on the perception of global spatial form versus motion in human amblyopia. Vision Res. 45, 449-460.
203. Wang, Y.-Z., & Hess R.F. (2005). Contributions of local orientation and position features to shape integration. Vision Res. 45, 1375-1383.
2006
204. Dumoulin, S.O, & Hess, RF (2006) Modulation of V1 activity by shape: image-statistics or shape-based perception? J Neurophysiol. 95(6): 3654-3664.
205. Ellemberg, D., Allen, H. & Hess, R.F. (2006). Second-order spatial frequency and orientation channels in human vision. Vision Research 46, 2798-2803.
206. Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2006a). The role of spatial phase in texture segmentation and contour integration. J.Vision, 6, 594-615.
207. Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2006b). Discrimination of amplitude spectrum slope in the fovea and parafovea and the local amplitude distributions of natural scene imagery. J. Vision 6, 696-711.
208. Hess, R.F. & Wilcox, L.M. (2006). Stereo dynamics are not scale dependent. Vision Research, 46, 1911-1923.
209. Hess, R. F., Mansouri, B. Dakin, S. C. & Allen, H. (2006) Integration of local motion is normal in amblyopia. J. Optical Soc. of America 23(5) 986-992.
210. Hess, R.F., Schmid, K.L., Dumoulin, S.O., Field, D.J. & Brinkworth, D.R. (2006). What image properties regulate eye growth? Current Biology 16, 687- 691.
211. Hess, R. F. Wang, Y-Z & Liu, C-H (2006) Accessibility of spatial channels for stereo and motion. Vision Research 46, 1318-1326.
212. Huang P C, Hess R F, Dakin S C, (2006a). Flank facilitation and contour integration: Different sites. Vision Research, 46, 3699-706.
213. Huang, P.-C., Kingdom, F. A. A. & Hess, R. F. (2006b). Only two phase mechanisms, ±cosine, in human vision. Vision Research, 46, 2069-2081.
214. Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R. F. (2006) The spatial frequency and orientation selectivity of mechanisms that extract motion-defined contours. Vision Research 46, 568-578.
215. Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2006). The global processing deficit in amblyopia involves noise segregation. Vision Research 46, 4104-4117.
216. Schmid, K. L. Brinkworth, D. R. Wallace, K. M. & Hess, R. F. (2006) The effect of manipulations to target contrast on emmetropization in chick. Vision Research 46, 1099-1107.
217. Simmers, A.J., Ledgeway, T., Mansouri, B., Hutchinson, C.V. & Hess, R.F. (2006). The extent of the dorsal extra-striate deficit in amblyopia. Vision Research 46, 2571-2580.
2007
218. Aaen-Stockdale, C., Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2007a). Second-order optic flow processing. Vision Research, 47(13), 1798-1808.
219. Aaen-Stockdale, C.R., Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2007b) Second-order optic flow deficits in amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal . & Vis. Sci., 48(12), 5532-5538.
220. Baker, D.H. , Meese, T.S., Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Binocular summation of contrast remains intact in strabismic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthalmol. & Vis. Sci. 48, 5332-5338.
221. Dumoulin, S.O. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Cortical specialization for concentric shape processing. Vision Research, 47, 1608-1613.
222. Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Structural sparseness and spatial phase alignment in natural scenes. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 24, 1873-1885.
223. Hess, R.F., Hutchinson, C.V., Ledgeway, T. & Mansouri, B. (2007). Binocular influences on global motion processing in the human visual system. Vision Research, 47, 1682-1692.
224. Huang, P.-C., & Hess, R. F. (2007). Collinear facilitation: Effect of additive and multiplicative external noise. Vision Research 47, 3108-3119. PDF
225. Huang, P.-C., Mullen, K.T. & Hess, R. F. (2007). Collinear facilitation in color vision. J. Vision, 7(11), 1-14.
226. Li, X.. -F., Dumoulin, S.O., Mansouri, B., & Hess, R.F. (2007). The fidelity of the cortical retinotopic map in human amblyopia.. European Journal of Neuroscience 25, 1265-1277.
227. Li, X.-F., Dumoulin, S.O., Mansouri, B., & Hess, R.F. (2007). Cortical deficits in human amblyopia: their regional distribution and their relationship to the contrast detection deficit. Invest. Ophthalmol. & Vis. Sci. 48, 1575-1591.
228. May, K.A. & Hess, R.F. (2007a). Dynamics of snakes and ladders. J. Vision 7(12), 1-9.
229. May, K.A. & Hess. R.F. (2007b). Ladder contours are undetectable in the periphery: a crowding effect? J. Vision 7(13), 1-15.
230. Mullen, K.T., Dumoulin, S.O., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicarary, G.I. & Hess, R.F. (2007). R.F. Sensitivity of human retinotopic visual cortex to red-green, blue-yellow and achromatic contrast. European J. of Neuroscience, 25, 491-502.
231. Mansouri, B., Hess, R.F. & Allen, H.A. (2007). Orientation variance discrimination in amblyopia. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 24, 2499-2504.
232. Thompson, B., Hansen, B.C., Hess, R.F. & Troje, N.F. (2007). Peripheral vision: Good for biological motion, bad for signal noise segregation? J. Vision, 7(10)(12), 1-7.
2008
233. Thompson, B., Farivar, R., Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2008). A dichopic projection system for visual psychophysics in fMRI scanners. J. Neuroscience Methods, 168, 71-75.
234. Hess, R. F. Baker, D. H, May K. A and Wang, J. (2008). On the decline of 1st and 2nd order sensitivity with eccentricity. J. Vision 8(1), 1-12.
235. Aaen-Stockdale, C.R., Thompson, B., Hess, R.F. & Troje, N.F. (2008). Biological motion perception is cue-invariant. J. Vision 8(8)(6), 1-11.
236. Hess, R.F. & Aaen-Stockdale, C.R. (2008). Global motion processing: the effect of spatial scale and eccentricity. J. Vision 8(4):11, 1-11.
237. Thompson, B., Hansen, B.C., Hess, R.F. and Troje, N.F. (2008). Amblyopic perception of biological motion. J. Vision. 8(4)(22), 1-14.
238. Thompson, B., Aaen-Stockdale, C. Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2008). Plaid perception is only subtly impaired in amblyopia. Vision Research, 48(11), 1307- 1314.
239. Hess, R. F. and Wilcox, L. M. The transient nature of 2nd order stereopsis. Vision Research, 48, 1327-1334.
240. Thompson, B., Mansouri, B. Koski, L. and Hess, R.F. (2008). Brain plasticity in the adult: restoration of function in amblyopia using rTMS. Current Biology, 18, 1067-1071.
241. Aaen-Stockdale, C.R. & Hess, R.F. (2008). The amblyopic deficit for global motion is spatial scale invariant. Visual Research, 48(19) 1965-1971.
242. Baker, D.H., Meese, T.S. & Hess, R.F. (2008). Contrast masking in strabismic amblyopia: attenuation, noise, interocular suppression and binocular summation. Vision Research, 48(15) 1625-1640.
243. Dumoulin S.O., Dakin S.C., & Hess R.F. (2008). Sparsely distributed contours dominate extra-striate response to complex scenes. NeuroImage, 42(2) 890- 901.
244. May, K. A., & Hess, R. F. (2008). Effects of element separation and carrier wavelength on detection of snakes and ladders: Implications for models of contour integration. Journal of Vision, 8(13):4, 1-23, http://journalofvision.org/8/13/4/, doi:10.1167/8.13.4.
245. Hansen, B.C., Farivar, R., Thompson, B. & Hess, R.F. (2008). A critical band of phase alignment for discrimination but not recognition of human faces. Vision Res. 48(25) 2523-36.
246. Huang, P-C and Hess, R. F. (2008). The dynamics of collinear facilitation: fast but sustained. Vision Research. Vision Research, 48, no27, pp. 2715-2722.
247. Mullen, K. T. Dumoulin, S. and Hess, R. F. (2009) Color responses of the human LGN: selective amplification of S-cone signals between the LGN and primary visual cortex measured with high-field fMRI. J Neuroscience, 2008, vol. 28, (9)1911-1923.
248. Mansouri, B., Thompson, B. and Hess, R.F. (2008). Measurement of suprathreshold binocular interactions in amblyopia. Vision Research, 48, (28), 2775- 2784.
2009
249. Aaen-Stockdale, C.R., Thompson, B., Huang, P.-C. & Hess, R.F. (2009). Low level mechanisms may contribute to paradoxical motion percepts. J. Vision, 9(5):9, 1-14
250. Hess, R. F., Thompson, B Gole, G and Mullen, K. T. (2009). Deficient responses from the lateral geniculate nucleus in humans with amblyopia. European J. Neuroscience, 29(5) 1064-1070.
251. Hess, R. F., Huang, P-C., & Maehara, G. (2009). Spatial distortions produced by purely binocularly-based visual motion. Perception, 38(7), 1012-1018.
252. Mansouri, B., Hansen B.C. & Hess, Robert. F. (2009). Disrupted retinotopic maps in amblyopia. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 50, 3218-3225.
253. Thompson, B, Aaen-Stockdale, C, Koski, L and Hess, R.F. (2009). A double dissociation between striate and extrastriate visual cortex for pattern motion perception revealed using rTMS. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 3115-3126.
254. Hess, R.F., Mansouri, B., Thompson, B. & Gheorghiu, E. (2009). Latent stereopsis for motion-in-depth in strabismic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthalmol. & Vis. Sci. 50, 5006-5016.
255. Hess, R.F. , Li, Xingfeng, Mansouri, B., Thompson, B. & Hansen, B..C. (2009).Selectivity as well as sensitivity loss characterizes the cortical spatial frequency deficit in amblyopia. Human Brain Mapping 30 Issue 12, 4054 – 4069.
256. Thompson, B., Aaen-Stockdale, C.R., Koski, L. & Hess, R.F. (2010) A double dissociation between striate and extra-striate visual cortex for pattern motion perception revealed using rTMS. Human Brain Mapping. 30(10):3115-26.
257. Maehara, G., Huang, P-C., & Hess, R. F. (2009. Importance of phase alignment for interocular suppression. Vision Research, 49(14), 1838-47.
2010
258. Hess, R.F., Li, X., Lu, G., Thompson, B., & Hansen, B.C. (2009). The contrast dependence of the cortical fMRI deficit in amblyopia; a selective loss at higher contrasts. Human brain mapping, 31(8):1233-48.
259. Li, Xingfeng, Marrelec, G., Hess, R.F., & Benali, H. (2010). A nonlinear identification method to study effective connectivity in functional MRI. Medical Image Analysis, 14, 30-38.
260. Barnes, G.R., Li, Xingfeng, Thompson, B, Singh, K.D., Dumoulin, SO. & Hess, R.F (2010). Decreased grey matter concentration in the lateral geniculate nuclei in human amblyopes. Invest. Opthal.Vis. Sci. 51, 1432-1438.
261. Maehara, G., Huang, P.-C. & Hess, R.F. (2010). The effects of flankers on contrast detection and discrimination in binocular, monocular, and dichoptic presentations. J. Vision, 10(4): 13; doi:10.1167/10.4.13.
262. Hansen, B.C., Thompson, B., Hess, R.F., & Ellemberg, D. (2010). Extracting the internal representation of faces from human brain activity: An analogue to reverse correlation. NeuroImage, 51, 373-390.
263. Hess, R.F., Thompson, B., Gole, G.A. & Mullen, K.T. (2010). The amblyopic deficit and its relationship to geniculo-cortical processing streams. J. Neurophysiology, 104, 475-483.
264. Hess, R.F., Li, X-F., Lu, G., Thompson, B., & Hansen, B.C. (2010). The contrast dependence of the cortical fMRI deficit in amblyopia; a selective loss at higher contrasts. Human brain mapping, 31(8), 1233-1248.
265. Meso, A.I. & Hess, R.F. (2010). Visual motion gradient sensitivity shows scale invariant spatial frequency and speed tuning properties. Vision Res. 50, 1475- 1485.
266. Dallala, R., Wang, Y.-Z. & Hess R.F. (2010). The global shape detection deficit in strabismic amblyopia: Contribution of local orientation and position. Vision Res., 50, 1612-1617.
267. Li, J, Lam, C.S., Yu, M., Hess, R.F., Chan, L.Y., Maehara G., Woo, G.C. & Thompson, B. (2010). Quantifying sensory eye dominance in the normal visual system: a new technique and insights into variation across traditional tests. Invest. Ophthalmology and Visual Sci, 519120, 6875-6881
268. Hess, R.F., Mansouri, B. & Thompson, B. (2010). A new binocular approach to the treatment of amblyopia in adults well beyond the critical period of visual development. Restorative Neurology & Neuroscience 28(6), 793-802.
269. Hess, R.F., Mansouri, B. & Thompson, B. (2010). A binocular approach to treating amblyopia: Antisuppression therapy. Optometry & Vision Science, 87(9), 697-704.
270. Aaen-Stockdale, C.R., Farivar, R. & Hess, R.F. (2010). Co-operative interactions between first- and second-order mechanisms in the processing of structure from motion. J. Vision 10(13): 6, 1-9
271. Mullen, K.T. Thompson, B. & Hess, R.F. . Responses of the human visual cortex and LGN to achromatic and chromatic temporal modulation: an fMRI study. Journal of Vision, 10(13): 13, 1–19, 2010
272. Thompson, B., Mansouri, B., Koski, L. & Hess, R. F. (2010). From motor cortex to visual cortex: the application of non-invasive brain stimulation to amblyopia. Psychobiology. first published online: 8 NOV 2010
273. Hess, R.F. & Zaharia, A.G.(2010) Global motion processing: invariance with mean luminance. J. Vision.10913)22, 1-10
274. Mullen, K. T. Thompson, B. and Hess, R. F.(2010) Responses of the human visual cortex and LGN to achromatic and chromatic temporal modulations: an fMRI study. J. Vision.24(10) 13, 1-19
275. Hess, R. F., Thompson, B and Maehara, G.(2010) A compact clinical instrument for quantifying suppression. Optom Vis Sci.87, 697-704
2011
276. Li, X., Mullen, K.T., Thompson, B. & Hess, R.F.(2011) Effective connectivity anomalies in human amblyopia. NeuroImage. 54, 505-516
277. Long, T. Thompson, B., Blum, J. Hess, R. F. and Cooperstock, J.(2011) A game platform for treatment of amblyopia. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 19(30, 280-289.
278. Thompson, B., Churan, R. A, Hess, R. F. Stockdale, C-A and Pack C. (2011) Impaired spatial and binocular summation for motion discrimination in strabismic amblyopia. Vision Res. 51(6), 577-584
279. Zhang, P., Bobier, W., Thompson, B, and Hess R. F.(2011) Binocular balance in normal vision and its modulation by mean luminance. Optometry and Vision Science 88(9), 1538-9235.
280. Goodman, L.K., Black, J.M., Phillips, G., Hess, R.F. & Thompson, B. (2011). Excitatory binocular interactions in two cases of alternating strabismus. J AAPOS. 15(4), 345-349
281. Hess, R. F. Mansouri, B and Thompson, B. (2011) A new approach to the treatment of binocular dysfunction in amblyopia and strabismus. Strabismus 19(3), 2110-118
282. Li, J Lam, C, Chen, L and Hess, R. F.(2011) The role of suppression in amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. Vis Sci.52(7) 4167-4176
283. Bell, J. Gheorghiu, E. Hess, R. F. and Kingdom, F. A. A.(2011) Global shape processing involves multiple integration stages. Vision Res.51, 1760-1766
284. Farivar, R., Thompson, B., Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2011) Interocular suppression in strabismic amblyopia results in an attenuated and delayed hemodynamic response function in early visual cortex. J. Vision 11(14):16, 1-12
285. Meso, A and Hess, R. F. (2011) Orientation gradient detection exhibits variable coupling between 1st and 2nd stage filtering mechanisms. J. Opt. Soc. America A 28(8), 1731-1731
286. Hess, R. F. Marhara, G (2011) Does cognitive processing have access to brief temporal events. e-Perception. 2, 142-149
287. Li, X., Coyle, Maguire, L McGinnity, T.M. and Hess, R. F.(2011) Long timescale neuronal fMRI adaptation effects in human amblyopic cortex. Medical Image Analysis. PLOS1. 6(10), e26562. Epub 2011 Oct 31
288. Meso,A, Hess, R. F.(2011) A visual field dependent architecture for second order motion processing. Neuroscience Letters 503, 77– 82
289. Maehara, G. Thompson, B Mansouri, B and Hess, R F. (2011) The perceptual consequences of Suppression in amblyopia. Vision Res. 52(12), 9011-9017
290. Black, J, Thompson, B, Marhara, G and Hess, R. F. (2011) A compact clinical instrument for quantifying suppression. Optom. Vis. Sci. 88(20), 334-343
2012
291. Huang, P-C, Marhara, G, May, K and Hess, R. F. Pattern masking:the importance of remote spatial frequencies and their phase alignments. J Vis. 2012 Feb 16;12(2):14. doi:10.1167/12.2.14.
292. Husk, J Farivar, R and Hess, R. F. Amblyopic deficits in processing structure-from-motion. J Vis April 13, 2012 12(4): 4; doi:10.1167/12.4.4
293. Thompson B Villeneuve, M Casanova, C & Hess R. F. Abnormal processing of pattern motion by extra striate cortex in amblyopia; evidence from fMRI. NeuroImage 2012 Apr 2;60(2):1307-15. Epub 2012
294. Hansen B. C. Hess R. F. On the effectiveness of noisemasks: Naturalistic vs. un-naturalistic image statistics. Vision Research Volume 60, 1 May 2012, Pages 101–113
295. Huang, P-C, Marhara, G., May, K. & Hess, R. F. (2012). Pattern masking: the importance of remote spatial frequencies and their phase alignments. J. Vision, 16;12(2):14; doi:10.1167/12.2.14.
296. Husk, J., Farivar, R &Hess, R. F. (2012). Amblyopic deficits in processing structure-from-motion. J. Vision, 12(4): 4; doi:10.1167/12.4.4.
297. Thompson, B., Villeneuve, M., Casanova, C. & Hess, R. F. (2012). Abnormal processing of pattern motion by extra striate cortex in amblyopia; evidence from fMRI. NeuroImage, 60 92) 1307-1315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.078.
298. Hansen, B. C. & Hess R. F. (2012). On the effectiveness of noisemasks: Naturalistic vs. un-naturalistic image statistics. Vision Research, 60, 101–113.
299. Husk, J., Huang, P-C & Hess, R. F. (2012). Orientation coherence sensitivity. J. Vision, 12 (6):18; doi: 10.1167/12.6.18.
300. Hess R. F., Thompson, B., Black, J., Maehara, G., Zhang, P., Bobier, W.,To L. & Cooperstock, G. (2012). An ipod treatment for amblyopia: an updated binocular approach. Optometry, 83 (2) 88-94.
301. Meso, A. & Hess, R. F. (2012). Identification and detection of visual motion gradient modulation: evidence for multiple extra-striate filtering channels. Vision Research, 1;64:42-8.
302. Zhou., J., Zhang, Y., Dai, Y., Zhao, H., Li, R., Hou, F., Liang, B., Hess, R. H. & Zhou, Z. (2012). Super normal vision: the eye limits the brain’s potential. Nature Scientific Reports, 364, 1-6.
303. Villeneuve, M.Y., Thompson, B., Hess, R.F., Casanova, C. (2012). Pattern-Motion Selective Responses in MT, MST and the Pulvinar of Humans. Eur J Neurosci., 2012 Jul 3. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08205.x. [Epub ahead of print]).
304. Aaen-Stockdale, C., Ledgeway, T., McGraw, P. & Hess, R. F. (2012). Integration of first and second order pathways at, above and beyond MT/MST. Vision Research, 8, 28-39.
305. Black, J. M., Hess, R. F., Cooperstock, J. R., To, L. & Thompson, B. (2012). The Measurement and Treatment of Suppression in Amblyopia. J. Vis. Exp., 14; (70). doi:pii: 3927. 10.3791/3927.
306. Reynaud, A. & Hess, R. F. (2012). The properties of spatial channels underlying the detection of orientation modulations. . Experimental Brain Research, ul;220(2):135-45. Epub 2012 May 24.
307. Huang, P-C, Li. Jinrong, Deng, Daming, Yu, Minbin & Hess, R.F. (2012). . Temporal synchrony deficits in amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal.Vis. Sci., Nov 8. pii: iovs.12-10835v1. doi: 10.1167/iovs.12-10835.
308. Huang, P-C., Baker, D.H. & Hess, R.F. (2012). Interocular suppression in normal and amblyopic vision: Spatio-temporal properties. J. Vision, Oct 31;12(11): 29; doi: 10.1167/12.11.29.
309. Li, J., Thompson, B., Ding, Z., Chen, L.Y., Chen, X., Deng, G. & Hess, R. F. (2012) Does partial occlusion promote normal binocular function? Invest. Opthal.Vis. Sci. 53(11), 618-627.
2013
310. Li, J., Chan, L., Thompson, B., Yu, M. & Hess, R. F. (2013). How best to assess suppression in patients with high anisometropia. Optometry and Vision Science Optom Vis. Sci., 90(2), 47-52.
311. Hess, R. F. & Thompson, B. (2013). New insights into amblyopia: Binocular therapy and non-invasive brain stimulation. JAAPOS, Volume 17, Issue 1, 89-93
312. Babu, R. J., Clavagnier, S. R., Bobier, W., Thompson, B. & Hess. R. F. The regional extent of suppression:strabismics vs non-strabismics. IOVS (in press)
313. Li. J., Thompson. B., Deng. D., Chan, L. YL., Yu. M., & Hess, R. F. Dichoptic training enables the adult amblyopic brain to learn. Current Biology, 23(8), 308- 309.
314. Li, J., Hess, R. F., Chan, L.Y.L., Deng, D.,Yang, X., Chen, X., Yu, M., Thompson, B. Quantitative measurement of interocular suppression in anisometropic amblyopia: A case-control study. J. Ophthalmology, 120(8), 1672-1680.
315. Dumoulin, S. O,. Hess, R. F., May K. & Harvey, B. Contour intergration along the association field in early extra-striate human visual cortex. J. Neurophysiology (in revision)
316. Clavagnier, S, Thompson, B and Hess, R. F. (2013)Long lasting effects of daily theta burst rTMS sessions in the human amblyopic cortex. J Brain Stimulation 6(6):860-7.
317. Husk, J. S., & Hess, R. F. Global processing of orientation in amblyopia. Vision Research, 82, 22-30.
318. Zhou, J., Huang, C-B. & Hess, R. F. The Effect of Unilateral Mean Luminance on Binocular Combination in normal and amblyopic vision. Scientific Reports, 3, 1-7,
319. Spiegel, D. P., Byblow, W. D., Hess. R. F. & Thompson, B. Anodal tDCS of the visual cortex in humans with amblyopia: a behavioural and fMRI study. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. published online 17 June 2013. DOI: 10.1177/1545968313491006
320. Spiegel, D. P., Li, J., Hess, R. F., Byblow, W. D., Yu, M. & Thompson, B. Anodal tDCS Enhances the Effect of Dichoptic Treatment for Stereopsis in Adults with Amblyopia.Neurotherapeutics published online 17 June 2013. DOI: 10.1177/1545968313491006
321. Zhou, J., Clavagnier, S., & Hess, R. F. Short-term monocular deprivation strengthens the patched eye’s contribution to binocular combination Journal of Vision 13(5), 12, 11-10.
322. Zhou, J Thompson, B. & Hess, R. F. A new form of rapid binocular plasticity in adult with amblyopia. Scientific Reports, 3(2368): 1-5. 2013
323. Reynaud, A., Zhou, J., and Hess, R. F.,(2013). Stereopsis and mean luminance, Journal of Vision, 13(11) 1-11.
324. Witz, N. and Hess, R. F. (2013). Mechanisms underlying global stereopsis in fovea and periphery. Vision Research, 87, 10-21.
325. Zhou J, Jia W, Huang CB and Hess RF, "The effect of unilateral mean luminance on binocular combination in normal and amblyopic vision", Scientific reports, 3 (2012): 1-7.2013
2014
326. Zhou J., Liu R., Zhou Y., and Hess RF (2014). Binocular combination of second-order stimuli. PLOS ONE, 9(1): e84632.
327. Witz N., Zhou J., and Hess RF (2014). Similar mechanisms underlie the detection of horizontal and vertical disparity corrugations. PLOS ONE, 9(1): e84846.
328. Baldwin AS., Husk JS., Meese TS., and Hess RF (2014). A two-stage model of orientation integration for Battenberg-modulated micropatterns. Journal of Vision, 14(1): 30, 1–21.
329. Raveendran RN., Babu RJ., Hess RF., and Bobier WR (2014). Transient improvements in fixational stability in strabismic amblyopes following bifoveal fixation and reduced interocular suppression. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 34 (2), 214-225.
330. Hess RF., Thompson B., and Baker DH. Binocular vision in amblyopia: structure, suppression and plasticity. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 34 (2), 146-162.
331. Zhou J., McNeal S., Babu RJ., Baker DH., Bobier WR., and Hess RF (2014). Time course of dichoptic masking in normals and suppression in amblyopes. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 55(7): 4098-4104.
332. Dumoulin SO., Hess RF., May KA., and Harvey BM (2014). Contour extracting networks in early extra-striate cortex. Journal of Vision, 14(5): 18, 1–14.
333. Reynaud A., Tang Y., Zhou Y., and Hess RF (2014). A normative framework for the study of extra-striate function. Journal of Vision, 14(9): 3, 1–16
334. Hess RF., Babu RJ., Clavagnier S., Black J., Bobier WR., and Thompson B (2014). The IPOD Binocular Home-Based Treatment for Amblyopia in Adults: Efficacy and Compliance. Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 97 (5), 389-398.
335. Zhou J., Georgeson M., and Hess RF (2014). Linear binocular combination of responses to contrast modulation: contrast-weighted summation in first- and second-order vision. Journal of Vision, 14(13): 24, 1–19
336. Zhou J., Reynaud A., and Hess RF (2014). Real-time modulation of eye dominance in human. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1795). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1717
337. Chen Z., Li J., Thompson B., Deng D., Yuan J., Chan L., Hess RF. and Yu M. The effect of Bangerter filters on binocular function in observers with amblyopia. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 56(1): 139-149. doi: 10.1167/iovs.14-15224.
338. Hansen BC., May KA., and Hess RF (2014). One “Shape” Fits All: The Orientation Bandwidth of Contour Integration. Journal of Vision, 14(13): 17, 1–21
2015
339. Hess, R. F., To, L., Zhou, J., Wang, G. and Cooperstock, J. (2015). Stereo Vision: the haves and havenots. i-Perception. 6(3): 1-5.
340. Zhou, J., Baker, D.H., Simard, M., Saint-Amour, D. and Hess, R.F. (2015). Short-term monocular patching boosts the patched eye’s response in visual cortex. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. 33: 381-387.
341. Hess, R.F. and Thompson, B. (2015). Amblyopia and the binocular approach to its therapy. Vision Research. 114:4-16.
342. Li, J., Spiegel D.P., Hess, R.F., Chen, Z.D., Chan, L, Deng, D.M., Yu, M. and Thompson, B. (2015). Dichoptic training improves contrast sensitivity in adults with amblyopia. Vision Research, 114:161-172.
343. Gao, Y., Renaud, A., Tang, Y., Feng, L., Zhou, Y., and Hess, R.F. (2015). The amblyopic deficit for 2nd order processing: Generality and Laterality. Vision Research, 114:111-121.
344. Feng, L., Zhou, J., Chen, L. and Hess, R.F. (2015). Sensory eye balance in surgically corrected intermittent exotropes with normal stereopsis. Scientific Reports, 5:13075, 1-8.
345. Renaud, A., Gao, Y. and Hess, R.F. (2015). A normative dataset on human global stereopsis using the quick Disparity Sensitivity Function (qDSF). Vision Research, 113(Pt A):97-103.
346. Baldwin, A.S., Husk, J.S., Edwards, L. and Hess, R.F. (2015). The efficiency of second order orientation coherence detection. Vision Research, 109(Pt A):45-51.
347. Baker, D. H., Simard, M., Saint-Amour, D. and Hess, R.F. (2015). Steady-state contrast response functions provide a sensitive and objective index of amblyopic deficits. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 56(2):1208-1216.
348. Clavagnier, S. Dumoulin, S. O. and Hess, R F (2015) is the cortical deficit in Amblyopia due to a reduced cortical magnification, Loss of neural resolution, or neural disorganization? J Neurosci (in press)
2016
349. Alex S. Baldwin, Daniel H. Baker & Robert F. Hess (2016). What do contrast threshold equivalent noise experiments actually measure? Noise vs. nonlinearity in different masking paradigms. PLoS One, 11(3):e0150942, pp. 1-26.
350. Zhou J, Liu R, Feng L, Zhou Y and Hess RF, " Deficient binocular combination of second-order stimuli in amblyopia", Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 57:1635–1642.
351. Hess RF, Ding R, Clavagnier S, Liu C, Guo C, Viner C, Barrett BT, Radia K and Zhou J, "A Robust and Reliable Test to Measure Stereopsis in the Clinic", Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 57(3): 798-804.
Baldwin, A. S. Schmidtmann, G. Kingdom, F. A.A. & Hess, R. F. (in press). Rejecting probability summation for radial frequency patterns, not so Quick! Vision Research.
Ren, Z. Zhou, J. Yao, Z. Wang, Z. Yuan, N. Xu, G. Wang, X. Zhang, B. Hess, R. F. and Yifeng Zhou Neuronal basis of perceptual learning in striate cortex Scientific Reports (in press)
Spiegel, D. P. Baldwin, A. S. & Hess, R. F. (in review). The relationship between fusion, suppression and diplopia in normal and amblyopic vision. Vision Research.
Hess, R. F. Spiegel, D. P. Baldwin, A. S.The relationship between fusion, suppression and diplopia in normal and amblyopic vision Vision Research (in revision)
Reynaud, A. Ruiz, T. Laguë-Beauvais, M, Hess, R. F. ; Farivar, R. First- and second-order contrast sensitivity functions reveal disrupted visual processing following mild traumatic brain injury Vision Research (in revision)
Zhou J, Feng L, Lin H and Hess RF, “On the maintenance of normal ocular dominance and a possible mechanism underlying refractive adaptation”, Submitted to Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Reynaud, A. and Hess, R. F. Is suppression just normal dichoptic masking?: suprathreshold considerations. IVOS (submitted)
Zhou, J. Reynaud, A. Jin Kim, J. Mullen, K. T. and Hess, R. F. Effect of chromaticity on short-term ocular dominance plasticity in the human adult. Scientific reports (in review)
Books
1. Recent advances in optic neuritis. (1986) Hess, R.F. and Plant, G.T. (eds.), Cambridge University Press.
2. Night Vision. (1990) Hess, R.F. and Nordby, K. (eds.), Cambridge University Press.
Chapters in Books
1. Hess, R.F., Watson, P.G., Banks, R.V. and Campbell, F.W. (1978) A clinical assessment of a new treatment of amblyopia. In: Strabismus: Gune & Stratton, London.
2. Hess, R.F. (1980) The application of contrast sensitivity techniques to the study of functional amblyopia in relationship between psychophysics and clinical ophthalmology. Cambridge University Press, pp. 11-41.
3. Hess, R.F. (1984) The uses and abuses of assessing contrast sensitivity functions for anomalous vision. Kohler Festschrift, Springer.
4. Hess, R.F. (1986) New and improved contrast sensitivity approaches to low vision. In: Low Vision Ed. G. Woo, Springer-Verlag, pp 1-16.
5. Hess, R.F. and Plant, G.T. (1986) Psychophysical loss in optic neuritis: spatial and temporal aspects. Chapter in Recent Advances in Optic Neuritis. Hess & Plant (eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 109-151.
6. Plant, G.T. and Hess, R.F. (1986) Electrophysical loss in optic neuritis: pattern VEP and pattern ERG. Chapter in Recent Advances in Optic Neuritis. Hess & Plant (eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 192-229.
7. Hess, R.F., Field, D.J. and Watt, R.J. (1989) The puzzle of amblyopia. In: Efficiency and coding in vision, 1988: Cambridge University Press, pp. 267-280.
8. Hess, R.F. (1990) Post-receptor sensitivity of the achromat. In: Night Vision. Hess, Sharpe & Nordby (eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 390-413.
9. Hess, R.F. (1990) Rod-mediated vision; role of post-receptor filters. In: Night Vision. Hess, Sharpe & Nordby (eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-48.
10. Hess, R.F. (1993) Assessing human retinal function beyond the receptors. In: Proceedings on Contrast Sensitivity: from Receptors to Clinic. "Contrast Sensitivity", Vol. 5, Shapley, R. & Lam, D.M.K. (eds.), MIT Press, pp 289-308.
11. Hess, R.F. (2002). Sensory processing in human amblyopia: snakes and ladders. Novartis Proceeding, In: Amblyopia - a multidisciplinary approach, edited by Merrick Moseley and Alistair Fielder. Butterworth Pub., U.K. pp 19-42
12. Hess R. F. Single cells to cellular networks. (2003) In Levels of Perception, by L. Harris & M. Jenkins (eds.) Springer -Verlag, New York. pp. 193-210.
13. Hess, R.F. Spatial scale in visual processing. (2004) In The Visual Neurosciences, edited by Leo M. Chalupa and John S. Werner. MIT Press pp 1043-1059.
14. Hess, R. F. & Daw, N. Amblyopia. In: Ocular Disease: Mechanisms and Management, Editors: Leonard A. Levin and Daniel M. Albert. Publisher: Saunders (Elsevier) Year: 2009/2010 (tbc) ISBN: 978-0-7020-2983-7. Chapter 58.
15. Hess, R. F. (2011) Early processing of spatial form. Chapter 32 Adler’s Physiology of the eye 11th edition. P614-626
16. Hess R. F. & Thompson, B (2011)Plasticity of the visual brain. In Plastic Vision ed L Harris Cambridge University Press.
17. Hess, R.F. Spatial scale in visual processing. (2011) In The Visual Neurosciences new 2012 edition, edited by Leo M. Chalupa and John S. Werner. MIT Press pp 1043-1059.
18. Contour integration; psychophysical, neurophysiological and computational perspectives. Oxford handbook of Perceptual Organization. Ed. Johan Wagenmans, Oxford University Press (in press) 24/4/2013
Published Abstracts:
1975
1. Hess, R.F. (1975) Eye movements and the contrast sensitivity function. Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society, 6, 227.
1978
2. Campbell, F.W., Hess, R.F. and Shute, C. (1978) McCollough effects and amblyopia. J. Physiol. 284, 111P.
3. Hess, R.F. (1978) Assessment of visual function in conditions involving intraocular scatter. International Symposium on Ophthalmological Optics, pp. 39-42.
4. Campbell, F.W., Banks, R., Hess, R.F. and Watson, P. (1978) Preliminary results of the first neuro-physiologic-based treatment of amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 8, p. 232.
1979
5. Hess, R.F., Zimmern, R. and Campbell, F.W. (1979) Do anisometropic and strabismic amblyopia have different neural bases? Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 19, p. 139.
1980
6. Hess, R.F. and Lillywhite, P. (1980) Effects of luminance on contrast and coding in cat visual cortex. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 300, 66P.
7. Hess, R.F. and Lillywhite, P. (1980) Effects of luminance of contrast and coding measured pscyhophysically in man. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 302, 105P.
8. Hess, R.F. (1980) Contrast coding in amblyopia. Experimental Brain and Behaviour Society Workshop. 1, p. 10.
9. Hess, R.F. and Bradley, A. (1980) Contrast coding in two different types of perceptual loss. Optical Society of America Recent Advances in Vision Meeting. 25, p. 15.
10. Dean, A.F., Hess, R.F. and Tolhurst, D.J. (1980) Divisive inhibition involved in directional sensitivity. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 308, 84-85P.
11. Hess, R.F., and Howell, E.R. (1980) Direction of low spatial frequencies in normal vision. The Third Conference on Visual Perception, Perception (suppl) 1, 52.
1981
12. Hess, R.F., Woo, G. and White, P.D. (1981) Contrast attenuation of intraocular lens implants in situ. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl.) 20, (3) p.87.
13. Hess, R.F., Keesey, U. and France, T. (1981) Vision in humans deprived of pattern stimulation in early life. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sic. (suppl) 20, (3) p. 87.
14. Hess, R.F., Lawden, M. and Campbell, F.W. (1981) Amblyopes exhibit a phase discrimination abnormality.l Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 20, p. 124.
1982
15. Hess, R.F. and Mullen, K.T. (1982) Suppression of the central cone under mesopic conditions. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 22, (3) p. 16.
16. Hess, R.F., Lillywhite, P. and Parker, A. (1982) How effective is contrast constancy? Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 22, (3) p. 207.
17. Hess, R.F. and Nordby, K. (1982) Rod monochromacy: spatio-temporal considerations. Perception (suppl) 1, (1) p. 21.
18. Hess, R.F. and Baker, C.L. (Jr) (1982) The pattern ERG in humans: dependence on pattern contrast, spatial frequency and temporal frequency. Neuroscience Abstracts 8, p. 27.
1983
19. Hess, R.F. and Baker, C.L. (Jr) (1983) The pattern ERG in amblyopic eyes. Neuroscience Abstracts 9, (1) p. 368.
1984
20. Hess, R.F. and Nordby, K. (1984) Temporal limits of rod vision. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 25, (3) p. 53.
21. Pointer, J.S. and Hess, R.F. (1984) Contrast threshold loss across the amblyopes visual field. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 25, (3) p. 75.
22. Plant, G.T. and Hess, R.F. (1984) Temporal frequency may be selectively affected in optic nerve demyelination. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. sci. (suppl) 25, (3) p. 312.
23. Nordby, K.N. and Hess, R.F. (1984) Spatial and temporal discrimination limits of rod vision. Perception (suppl) 13, A8.
24. Baker, C.L. (Jr) and Hess, R.F. (1984) The relationship of pattern and uniform field electroretinograms. Perception (suppl) 13, A14C.
25. Pointer, J.S. and Hess, R.F. (1984) The distribution of the amblyopic anomaly across the visual field. Perception (suppl) 13, 23d.
26. Hess, R.F. and Baker, C.L. (Jr) (1984) Human electroretinograms. 6th ICER P-1, 51.
27. Beringer, T., Hess, R.F. and Baker, C.L. (Jr) (1984) Changes in the pattern evoked retinal responses imposed by position of the reference electrode. 6th ICER. P-1, 51.
1985
28. Hess, R.F., Baker, C.L. and Zrenner, E. (1985) Electroretinograms to patterns in cat, monkey and man. 8th European Conference on Visual Perception. Perception 14, A22.
29. Plant, G.T., Hess, R.F. and Zimmern, R.L. (1985) Threshold vision - a case of visual agnosia. 8th European Conference on Visual Perception. Perception 14, A24.
1986
30. Pointer, J.S., and Hess, R.F. (1986) Regional distribution of the low spatial frequency mechanism. Perception (suppl) 16, (2), A26.
31. Hess, R.F. and Watt, R.J. (1986) Spatial information and uncertainty in anisometropic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 27, p. 95.
32. Zrenner, E., Baker, C.L., Hess, R.F. and Olsen, O. (1986) Current source density analysis of linear and non-linear components of the primate electroretinogram. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 27, p. 242.
33. Pointer, J.S. and Hess, R.F. (1986) Are discriminations of (3F+F)/(3F-F) best thought of in terms of frequency or space domain? Perception (suppl) 15, (1) A15.
34. Pointer, J.S. and Hess, R.F. (1986) Are discriminations of (F+3F)/(F=3F) best thought of in terms of frequency or space domain? Perception (suppl) 15, (1) A15.
1987
35. Hess, R.F. and Watt, R.J. (1987) The interpretation of changes in hyperacuity with eccentricity. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 28, p. 138.
36. Boulton, J. and Hess, R.F. (1987) More than one mechanism underlies velocity discrimination. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 28, p. 297.
37. Hess, R.F. and Watt, R.J. (1987) Human amblyopia: cortical neurones are misplaced not lost. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 390, 31P.
38. Hess, R.F. and Pointer, J.S. (1987) The contrast sensitivity gradient along the horizontal visual field in man. J. Physiol. (Lond.) P.C.10, 1440.
39. Baker, C.L., Hess, R. and Zihl, J. (1987) The motion-blind human patient: peripheral filters. J. Physiol. (Lond.) C49, 65P.
1988
40. Hess, R.F. and Pointer, J.S. (1988) How good is one at discriminating blur in non-foveal regions of the visual field? J. Physiol. (Lond.) 406, 27P.
41. Hess, R.F. (1988) The site of suppression in human amblyopia. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 407, 70P.
42. Boulton, J. and Hess, R.F. Mechanisms underlying velocity discrimination. Paper presented at the Form and Motion Meeting, University of Tubingen, March 1988.
43. Hess, R.F. The visual deficit in optic neuritis. Invited Lecture at the 5th International Optometric Congress in Sydney, April 1988.
44. Hess, R.F. Recent advances in electroretinography. Invited Lecture at the 5th International Optometric Congress in Sydney, April 1988.
45. Hess, R.F. (1988) On the relationship between visual sensitivity and illuminance. 11th European Conference on Visual Perception. Perception (suppl) 17, A24.
46. Pinny, H.D., Barbur, J.L. and Hess, R.F. (1988) Pupillary responses to grating stimuli in amblyopes. 11th European Conference on Visual Perception. 17, A72.
47. Baker, C.L., Hess, R.F. and Zihl, J. (1988) The "motion-blind" patient: A psychophysical study of spatial and temporal visions. Neurosci. Abstracts 14, p. 1251.
48. Boulton, J. and Hess, R.F. (1988) The optimal displacement for the detection of motion. Neurosci. Abstracts 14, p. 1251.
49. Hess, R.F. (1988) Scotopic vision. Invited lecture to the Applied Vision Association. 15 Dec. 1988.
1989
50. Anderson, S.J., Mullen, K.T. and Hess, R.F. (1989) Asymmetry in the human retina for motion and colour detection. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 30, p. 53.
51. Hess, R.F. and Snowden, R. (1989) The temporal visual filters: number, shades and spatial dependence. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 30, p. 111.
52. Harrad, R.A. and Hess, R.F. (1989) Binocular contrast masking in strabismic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. (suppl) 30, p. 326.
53. Snowden, R. and Hess, R.F. (1989) Temporal visual filters in the human visual field. Neurosci. Abstracts 15, p. 625.
1990
54. Harrad, R. and Hess, R.F. (1990) Threshold conditions for strabismic suppression and binocular rivalry in amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 31, (4) p. 305.
55. Hess, R.F. and Holliday, I.E. (1990) Spatial localization of Gabor patches; effect of contrast spatial frequency and size. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 31, (4) p. 326.
56. Anderson, S.A. and Hess, R.F. (1990) Spatial undersampling causes both motion cessation and reversal phenomena in human vision. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 31, (4) p. 495.
57. Baker, C.L, Hess, R.F. and Zihl, J. (1990). The motion-blind patient; perception of random dot limited lifetime motion. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 31, (4) p. 239.
58. Holliday, I.E. and Hess, R.F. (1990) A neurophysiologically-based model for spatial localization of Gabor stimuli. Perception 19, (4) p. 400.
1991
59. Hess, R.F. and Holliday, I.E. (1991) The nature of the abnormality of spatial localization in strabismic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 32, (4) p. 1270.
60. Allen, D. and Hess, R.F. (1991) Temporal homogeneity of the visual field. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 32, (4) p. 840.
61. Harrad, R.A. and Hess, R.F. (1991). A model for suppression in amblyopia. ESA Mtg., Brussels May 22-24.
62. Hess, R.F. and Holliday, I.E. (1991). A neurophysiologically based model for the spatial localization of spatially narrowband stimuli. In: Contrast in Vision, Sept. 4-7 1991, Cambridge, England.
1992
63. Field, D.J., Hayes, A. & Hess, R.F. (1992). The "glue" in fractal edges: an example of feature integration by the human visual system. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 33, (4) p. 1347.
64. Hayes, A. and Hess, R.F. (1992). Spatial scale considerations for "Weber's Law" of spatial position. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 33, (4) p. 1343.
65. Hess, R.F. and Hayes, A. (1992). The relationship between positional uncertainty, spatial scale and eccentricity. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 33, (4) p. 825.
66. Strong, N.P., Hess, R.F. and Losada, M.A. (1992). Quantifying the effects of intraocular light scatter in posterior subcapsular cataract. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 33, (4) p. 965.
67. Anderson, S.J. and Hess, R.F. (1992). The shape and spatial-frequency bandwidth of masking functions vary with contrast. ECVP Meeting, Pisa, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 1992. Perception 21 Suppl. 2, p. 93.
68. Barbur, J.L., Hess, R.F. and Pinney, H.D. (1992). Pupillary function in human amblyopia. ECVP Meeting, Pisa, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 1992. Perception 21 Suppl. 2, p. 39.
69. Hayes, A. and Hess, R.F. (1992). Relative localisation of simple stimuli as a function of retinal eccentricity. ECVP Meeting, Pisa, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 1992. Perception 21 Suppl. 2, p.5
70. Hess, R.F. and Field, D. (1992). Is positional uncertainty due to undersampling? ECVP Meeting, Pisa, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 1992. Perception 21 Suppl. 2, p. 5.
71. Smith, A.T., Hess, R.F. and Baker Jr. C.L. (1992). Direction-identification thresholds for second-order motion stimuli. ECVP Meeting, Pisa, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 1992. Perception 21 Suppl. 2, p. 46.
1993
72. Snowden, R.J., Waugh, S.J. and Hess, R.F. (1993). Temporal frequency channels as revealed by masking at low luminance levels. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 34, (4) p. 706.
73. Waugh, S.J. and Hess, R.F. (1993). Suprathreshold temporal frequency discrimination in the fovea and periphery. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 34, (4) p. 819.
74. Hess, R.F. and Anderson, S.J. (1993). Motion sensitivity and spatial undersampling in amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 34, (4) p. 864.
75. Wilcox, L.M. and Hess, R.F. (1993). Linear and non-linear contributions to stereopsis. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 34, (4) p. 1187.
76. Dakin, S.R.G. and Hess, R.F. (1993). Localization of random Gabor clusters. ECVP Meeting, University of Edinburgh, August 25-29 1993. Perception 22 Suppl. p.36
77. Hayes, A., Field, D.J. and Hess, R.F. (1993) Association by the visual system of contour elements of alternating polarity. ECVP Meeting, University of Edinburgh, August 25-29 1993. Perception 22, Suppl. p. 5.
78. Hess, R.F. (1993) Peripheral spatial accuracy is limited by uncalibrated neural disarray. ECVP Meeting, University of Edinburgh, August 25-29 1993. Perception 22, Suppl. p.37.
1994
79. Hess, R.F. and Dakin, S.R.G. (1994). The nature of the mechanisms which encode the position of random element clusters. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 35, (4), p. 1256.
80. Wilcox, L.M. and Hess, R.F. (1994). Is the site of non-linear filtering in stereopsis before or after binocular combination? Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 35, (4), p. 1490.
81. Sankeralli, M.J., Mullen, K.T. and Hess, R.F. (1994). Positional deficits for color and luminance vision in amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 35, (4), p. 1895
82. Polomeno, R., Hess, R.F. and W.E.S. Connolly (1994). Is amblyopia due to undersampling or neural disarray? Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 35, (4), p. 2201.
83. Hess, R.F. and Badcock, D.R. (1994). The metric for separation discrimination by the human visual system. Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, Oct. 2-7, 1994. SuD6.
84. Demanins, R., and Hess, R.F. (1994). The regional distribution of the spatial localization deficit in strbismic amblyopia. Sherbrooke Symposium on Postgraduate Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sept. 30-Oct. 1 1994, Banff, Alberta.
85. Jovkar, S, Hess, R.F., Wilcox, L. and Simmons, D. (1994). The effect of image distortions on stereoscopic performance. Sherbrooke Symposium on Postgraduate Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sept. 30-Oct. 1 1994, Banff, Alberta.
86. Sankeralli, M.J., Mullen, K.T. and Hess, R.F. (1994). Positional deficits for color and luminance vision in amblyopia. Sherbrooke Symposium on Postgraduate Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sept. 30-Oct. 1 1994, Banff, Alberta.
1995
87. Baker, Jr. C.L. and Hess, R.F. (1995). Limited-lifetime random gabor stimuli reveal two underlying motion mechanisms. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 36, (4) p. S395.
88. Demanins, R. and Hess, R.F. (1995). Positional inaccuracy and bias in strabismic amblyopia: effect of spatial scale. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 36, (4) p. S45.
89. Fredericksen, R.E. and Hess, R.F. (1995). Two, three or four temporal channels? A re-re-evaluation. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 36, (4) p. S16.
90. Hess, R.F. and Field, D.J. (1995). Contour integration across depth. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 36, (4) p. S231.
91. Jovkar, S., Hess, R.F., Wilcox, L. and Simmons D. (1995). Effect of image distortions on stereoscopic perforamnce. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 36, (4) p. S366.
92. Wilcox, L.M. and Hess, R.F. (1995). Stereoacuity for amplitude modulated stimuli. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 36, (4) p. S365.
92. Demanins, R. and Hess, R.F. (1995). Is there a relationship between the accuracy and bias deficits in strabismic amblyopia? Sherbrooke Symposium, Sept. 22-23 1995, Magog-Orford, Quebec.
1996
94. Demanins, R., Hess, R.F. & Keeble, D.R.T. (1996). The nature of the orientation deficit in strabismic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 37,(3) p. S280.
95. Doshi, S. & Hess, R.F. (1996). Adaptation to spatial offsets. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 37,(3) p. S734.
96. Fredericksen, R.E. & Hess, R.F. (1996). Estimates of temporal-detection mechanisms depend on stimulus parameters. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 37,(3) p. S521.
97. Hess, R.F., Bex, P.J., Brady, N. & Fredericksen, R.E. (1996). Human motion detection: energy or edge-based? Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 37,(3) p. S916.
98. Keeble, D.R.T. & Hess, R.F. (1996). Orientation masks 3-Gabor alignment performance. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 37,(3) p. S734.
99. Wilcox, L.M., Elder, J.H. & Hess, R.F. (1996). The effect of stimulus blur and size on stereoacuity. Invest. Ophthal. and Vis. Sci. 37,(3) p. S684.
98. Keeble D R T and Hess R F Local contour discrimination in curved paths
ECVP 96
1997
101. Dakin, S.C. & Hess, R.F. (1997). The effect of orientation and spatial scale on the detection of visual symmetry. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 38(4) pS638.
102. Dakin, S.C., Williams, C.B. & Hess, R.F. (1997). First-order filter combination occurs prior to envelope extraction. J. Optical Society of America,TuF3.
103. Demanins, R. & Hess, R.F. (1997). Contour integration in anisometropic amblyopia. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 23, Part 1, p176.
104. Demanins, R., Wang, Y-Z. & Hess, R.F. (1977). Does the spatial filtering loss in strabismic amblyopia impose a fundamental limit to nonlinear motion perception? Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 38(4) pS105.
105. Field, D.J., Hayes, A. & Hess, R.F. (1997). The role of phase and contrast polarity in contour integration. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 38(4) pS999.
106. Hess, R.F., Ziegler, L.R. & Kingdom, F.A.A. (1997). The linkage between the spatial channels for luminance and disparity modulation. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 38(4) pS954.
107. Wang, Y-Z., Hess, R.F., Demanins, R., Wilkinson, F. & Wilson, H.R. (1997). Sensitivity for radial frequency modulations in strabismic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 38(4) pS446.
108. Wang, Y-Z., Hess, R.F., Bradley, A. & Thibos, L.N. (1997). Effects of optical aberrations on the sensitivity for radial frequency modulation. J. Optical Society of America, TuUU7.
109. Williams, C.B., Dakin, S.C. & Hess, R.F. (1997). Interaction of first and second order orientation channels. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 38(4) pS631.
110. Ziegler, L.R. & Hess, R.F. (1997). Linear and non-linear stereoscopic contributions distinguished by task. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 38(4) pS906.
1998
111. Dakin, S.C. & Hess, R.F. (1998). The spatial frequency tuning of contour integration. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 39(4) pS206.
112. Demanins, R. & Hess, R.F. (1998) Deficits for orientation discrimination in strabismic amblyopia. Soc. Neuroscience Abstr. submitted.
113. Demanins, R., Wang, Y.-Z. & Hess, R.F. (1998). Relative contribution of under- and irregular sampling in strabismic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 39(4) pS329.
114. Hess, R.F. & Dakin, S.C. (1998). Absence of contour linking in periphery. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 39(4) pS205.
115. Wang, Y.-Z., Hess, R.F. & Dakin, S.C. (1998). Judgements of circularity: Local or Global? Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 39(4) pS847.
116. Williams, C.B. & Hess, R.F. (1998). The relationship between facilitation at threshold and suprathreshold contour integration. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 39(4) pS849.
117. Ziegler, L.R. & Hess, R.F. (1998). Why is there depth but no shape from uncorrelated micropatterns? Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. 39(4) pS615.
118. Kingdom, F.A.A., Ziegler, L.R. & Hess, R.F. (1998). The role of spatial scale in stereoscopic segmention Perception (suppl.) 27, p.21.
119. Ziegler, L.R., Hess, R.F. & Kingdom, F.A.A. (1998). Factors that determine the maximum disparity for stereoscopic shape perception. Perception (suppl.) 27, p. 109.
120. Hess R F and Ziegler L (1998) Shape from linear but not non-linear motion.Perception (suppl.) 27, p4.
121. Williams C B, Hess R F and Demanins R (1998) Orientation tuning estimatedby notch-filtered noise masking. Perception (suppl.) 27, p80.
122. 122. Dakin S C, Mareschal I and Hess R F (1998) Sensitivity to amplitude modulation depends on carrier spatial frequency and orientation. Perception (suppl.) 27 p 38.
1999
123. Williams C W and Hess R F (1999) Orientation tuning estimated in the absence of off-frequency looking. Invest. Ophthal. & Visual Sci. 40 (4) ps42
124. Gingra, G, Mitchell, D. E and Hess, R. F. (1999) The spatial localization deficit in visually deprived kittens. Invest. Ophthal. & Visual Sci. 40 (4) ps54.
125. Achtman, R, Hess, r. F. and Wang Y-Z (1999) 2nd order shape: effect of carrier orientation. Invest. Ophthal. & Visual Sci. 40 (4) ps351
126. Ziegler, L. Hess, R. F. and Kingdom, F. A. A. (1999) The relationship between luminance spatial frequency and Dmax for shape-fron-stereo. Invest. Ophthal. & Visual Sci. 40 (4) ps420
127. Dumoulin S. O., Hess, R. F. and Baker, C. L. Jr (1999) Motion mechanisms in the periphery assessed with limited-lifetimes random Gabor patterns. Invest. Ophthal. & Visual Sci. 40 (4) ps424
128. Ledgeway T and Hess, R. F. (1999) Multi-channel second-order motion. Invest. Ophthal. & Visual Sci. 40 (4) ps425
129. Barnes G. R., Hess, R. F., Petre, V., Dumoulin S. O., Hoge, R and Evans A. (1999) fMRI responses to sinusoidal grating stimuli in strabismic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal. & Visual Sci. 40 (4) ps644
130. Hess, R. F. and Dakin S. C. (1999) Foveal contour interaction:physics or physiology. Invest. Ophthal. & Visual Sci. 40 (4) ps809.
131. Wang, Y-Z, Hess R. F. and Dakin, S. C. (1999) Shape discrimination; sides or corners? Invest. Ophthal. & Visual Sci. 40 (4) ps811.
2000
132. Achtman, R.L., Dumoulin, S.O., Barnes, G.R. & Hess, R.F. (2000). Dissociation of task-related vs. stimuli-related cortical activation: an fMRI study of visual contours. 4th Ann. Vis. Res. Conference: Functional Brain Imaging in Vision, Fort Lauderdale, 28-29 April 2000.
133. Achtman, R.L., Dumoulin, S.O. & Hess, R.F. (2000). Are separate cortical areas involved in global shape detection? An fMRI study. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 41(4) S216.
134. Barnes, G.R., Beaudot, W.H.A., Achtman, R.L., Dumoulin, S.O., Holliday, I.E., Hillebrand, A., Hess, R.F. (2000). A combined magnetoencephalographic (MEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) investigation of visual contour integration. 4th Ann. Vis. Res. Conference: Functional Brain Imaging in Vision, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 28-29 April 2000.
135. Barnes, G.R., Dumoulin, S.O., Achtman, R.A., Beaudot, W.H.A. & Hess, R.F. (2000). An fMRI investigation of contour integration. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 41(4) S443.
136. Beaudot, W.H.A., Hess, R.F. & Mullen, K.T. (2000). Dynamics of contour integration. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 41(4) S441.
137. Dumoulin, S.O., Hess, R.F., Barnes, G.R., Achtman, R.L. & Pike, G.B. (2000). The nature and site of the fMRI deficit in strabismic amblyopia. 4th Ann. Vis. Res. Conference: Functional Brain Imaging in Vision, Fort Lauderdale, 28-29 April 2000.
138. Dumoulin, S.O., Baker Jr., C.L. & Hess, R.F. (2000). A centrifugal bias for second-order but not first-order motion. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 41(4) S795.
139. Dumoulin, S.O., Hoge, R.D., Achtman, R.L., Baker Jr., C.L., Hess, R.F. & Evans, A.C. Volumeetric retinotopic mapping without cortical surface reconstruction. 6th Ann. Mtg. Human Brain Mapping Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 12-16 June, 2000.
140. Scott-Samuel, N.E. & Hess, R.F. (2000). Orientation sensitivity of short-range and long-range motion processing. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 41(4) S231.
141. Hess, R.F. & Ledgeway, T. (2000). No 2nd order input to global operations in vision. Canadian BBS and British EPS Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 19-23 July, 2000.
142. Meese, T. S. Holmes, d. J. Williams, C, and Hess, r. F. Contrast discrimination and summation. Perception 29, 121
2001
143. Meese, T. S., Hess, R. F. & Williams, C. B. (2001) Spatial coherence does not affect contrast discrimination for multiple Gabor stimuli. Perception, 30 (supp), 90.
144. Schmid KL, Hamlin A, Hess R, Field DJ. (2001) The effect of noise targets with differing spatial frequency amplitude spectra on emmetropization in chicks. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 42 (4): S58.
145. Achtman, R.L., Dumoulin, S.O., Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2001). fMRI activation of striate and extra-striate areas by circumferential gratings and phase-scrambled patterns of varying contrast. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 42(4) S407, Abstract #2195.
146. Dumoulin, S.O, Hess, R.F., and Baker, C.L. (Jr.) (2001) fMRI responses to first and second-order motion. Invest.Ophthal.Vis.Sci. 42(4), S322, Abstract #1735 .
147. Hess, R.F. & Ledgeway, T. (2001). An association field for motion-defined contours. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 42(4) S515, Abstract #2772.
148. Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2001). Why is direction identification impoverished for briefly presented 2nd-order motion stimuli? Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 42(4) S532. Abstract #2854.
149. Rainville, S.J.M., Scott-Samuel, N.E., Makous, W.L. & Hess, R.F. (2001) . The spatial properties of opponent-motion energy normalization. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 42(4) S870. Abstract #4670.
150. Schmid, K.L., Hamlin, A., Hess, R. & Field, D.J. (2001). The effect of noise targets with differing spatial frequency amplitude spectra on emmetropization in chicks. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 42(4) S58, Abstract #323.
151. Scott-Samuel, N.E., Rainville, S.J.M., Hess, R.F. & Makous, W.l. (2001). Opponent motion energy sation: area is the determining factor. Perception Suppl. 30, 35.
152. Williams, C.B. & Hess, R.F. (2001). Contour interaction below the acuity limit. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 42(4) S611, Abstract #3284.
2002
153. Achtman, R.L., Hess, R.F. & Wang, Y.-Z. (2002). Sensitivity for global form detection.ECVP Meeting, Aug. 2002, Glasgow, Scotland. Perception 13 (Supplement) p. 153a.
154. Beaudot, W.H.A., Hess, R.F. & Mullen, K.T. (2002). Psychophysical evidence of cortical dynamics in contour integration. 25th European Conference on Visual perception, Glasgow, 25-29 August, 2002. Perception, 13 (Supplement) p. 153b.
155. Dumoulin, S.O., Baker, C.L., Hess, R.F. & Evans, A.C. (2002) Cortical specialization for processing first- and second-order motion in parietal and occipital lobe: an fMRI study.Soc. Neurosci. Abstract No. 219.1, Orlando, Florida 2-7 November, 2002.
156. Allen, H, A, Hess, R, F, Dakin, S, C,& Mansouri, B (2002). Spatial integration of second-order orientation. J. Vision, Vol. 2, No. 7, Abstract 223.
157. Ehrt, O., Williams, C.B. & Hess, R.F. (2002). Detection- and discrimination thresholds for Landolt C in contour interaction. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. ARVO Meeting, 2002.
158. Hess, R.F. & Ledgeway, T. (2002). Direction- and speed-defined spatial contours: one mechanism of two? J. Vision. Vol. 2, No. 7, Abstract 121.
159. Ledgeway, T., Hess, R.F. & McGraw, P.V. (2002). Masking effects between local first-order and second-order motions in the extraction of global-motion direction depend critically on stimulus visibility. 25th European Conference on Visual perception, Glasgow, 25-29 August, 2002. Perception, 13 (Supplement) p.99c.
160. Mansouri, B., Allen, H.A, Ehrt, O., Dakin, S.C. & Hess, R.F. (2002). Amblyopes can combine orientation across space. Invest. Ophthal. Vis. Sci. ARVO Meeting, 2002.
161. Achtman, R.L., Hess, R.F., Wang, Y-Z. (2002). “Sensitivity for global shape detection”. Perception (Supplement), 31: 153. Presented at 25thEuropean Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Aug. 2002, Glasgow,Scotland.
162. Ledgeway, T., Hess, R.F. & McGraw, P.V. (2002). Masking effects between
local first-order and second-order motions in the extraction of global
motion direction depend critically on stimulus visibility. Perception
(Supplement), 31, 99-100.
2003
163. Allen, H.A., Hess, R.F. & Ledgeway, T. Discriminating the direction of randomly positioned contrast-defined motion. Vision Sciences Society 3rd Annual Meeting, May 9-14, 2003, Sarasota, Florida. Abstract #SU57, p. 151.
164. Ellemberg, D., Allen, H.A. & Hess, R.F. Spatial lateral interactions operate over shorter distances for second-order compared to first-order mechanisms. Vision Sciences Society 3rd Annual Meeting, May 9-14, 2003, Sarasota, Florida. Abstract #MO5, p. 172.
165. Hess, R.F., Allen, H.A., Sebbag, S. & Dakin, S.C. The site of orientation integration. . Vision Sciences Society 3rd Annual Meeting, May 9-14, 2003, Sarasota, Florida. Abstract #SA116, p. 130.
166. Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. The spatial properties of motion-defned contours? Vision Sciences Society 3rd Annual Meeting, May 9-14, 2003, Sarasota, Florida. Abstract #TU46, p. 216.
167. Mansouri, B., Hess, R.F., Allen, H.A. & Sebbag, S. The site of orientation integration. ARVO Meeeting, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
168. Mansouri, B., Hess, R.F., Allen, H.A., Sebbag, S. & Dakin, S.C. The site orientation integration. Vision Sciences Society 3rd Annual Meeting, May 9-14, 2003, Sarasota, Florida. Abstract #SA 116, p. 130.
169. Wang, Y.-Z. & Hess, R.F. Integration of local orientational and positional contour features in shape discrimination. Vision Sciences Society 3rd Annual Meeting, May 9-14, 2003, Sarasota, Florida. Abstract #MO50, p. 183.
170. Wang, Y.-Z. and Hess, R. F. (2003) "Contributions of local orientational and positional contour features to shape discrimination." Annual Meeting of Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
171. Schmid KL, Wallace KM, Brinkworth DR, Hess RF. (2003) The contrast threshold required to prevent deprivation myopia in chick. Proc of the 10th Scientific Meeting in Optometry. p44.
2004
172. Wallace KM, Schmid KL, Brinkworth DR, Hess RF, Dumoulin S.(2004) Eye growth responses in chick are dependent on the spatial order of visual information. Proceedings of Vision Down under, XVI ICER Satellite Meeting on the Eye and Brain. 2004: 39
173. Meese, T. S., Georgeson. M. A., & Hess, R. F. (2004). Binocular summation, interocular suppression and contrast gain control: Psychophysical model and data. Perception. 33-supp, 41.
174. Dumoulin, S.O., Dakin, S.C. & Hess, R.F. (2004).Cortical responses to contours, texture and sparseness: an fMRI investigation. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, April 30-May 5, 2004, Sarasota, Florida.
175. Ellemberg, D., Hess, R.F. & Allen, H.A. (2004). Evidence for spatial frequency and orientation labelled detectors in second-order visual processing. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, April 30-May 5, 2004, Sarasota, Florida.
176. Huang, P.-C., Hess, R.F. & Dakin S.C. (2004). Different sites for lateral facilitation and contour integration. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, April 30-May 5, 2004, Sarasota, Florida.
177. Hess, R.F. & Ledgeway, T.L. (2004). A second look at 2nd order linking. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, April 30-May 5, 2004, Sarasota, Florida.
178. Mansouri, B., Allen, H.A., Dakin, S.C. & Hess, R.F. (2004). Can amblyopes integrate second-order orientation information? ARVO Meeting 23rd-30th April, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
179. Mansouri, B., Allen, H.A., Hess, R.F. (2004). Orientation variance discrimination in amblyopic and normal vision. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, April 30-May 5, 2004, Sarasota, Florida.
180. Watson, R. & Hess, R.F. (2004). Spatial summation depends on spatial scale. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, April 30-May 5, 2004, Sarasota, Florida.
181. Ehrt, O & Hess R. F. (2004) Contour interaction and contrast masking in amblyopia ARVO Meeting, 23rd-30th April, Fort Lauderdale Florida.
2005
182. Dumoulin, S.O., Mullen, K.T., McMahon, K.L., Bryant, M., de Zubicaray, G.I. & Hess, R.F. (2005). A comparison of the BOLD fMRI response to achromatic, L/M opponent and S-cone opponent cardinal stimuli in human visual cortex: II. chromatic vs achromatic stimuli. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, May 6-11, 2005, Sarasota, Florida.
183. Dumoulin, S.O., Barnes, G.R., Logan, N. & Hess, R.F. (2005). Binocular rivalry and clinical suppression assessed with MEG. , 28th European Conference on Visual Perception, A Coruna, Spain, 22-26 August, 2005. Perception (Supplement), 34, 188.
184. Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2005). Local amplitude spectrum slope discrimination in the fovea and parafovea and its relationship to natural scene region segmentation. CVR 2005 Int. Vision Conference on Computational Vision in Neural and Machine Systems. June 15-18, 2005, York University, Toronto, Canada.
185. Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. Contour processing and the local cross-scale spatial phase alignment of natural scene images. ECVP Conference, Aug. 22-26, 2005, A Coruna, Spain. Perception (Supplement), 34, 106.
186. Hess, R.F., Wang, Y-Z & Liu C.H. (2005). Accessibility of spatial channels. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, May 6-11, 2005, Sarasota, Florida.
187. Huang, P-C., Hess, R.F. & Kingdom, F.A.A. (2005).. Labelled lines for phase? Vision Sciences Society Meeting, May 6-11, 2005, Sarasota, Florida.
188. Li, X.F., Dumoulin, S.O., Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2005). Regions of spared cortical function in human amblyopia. . Soc. for Neuroscience. Program No. 978.3 2005 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington D.C.,
189. Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2005). Amblyopic suppression: all-or-none or graded? 28th European Conference on Visual Perception, A Coruna, Spain, 22-26 August, 2005. Perception (Supplement), 34, 30.
190. Mullen, K.T., Dumoulin, S.O., McMahon, K.L., Bryant, M., de Zubicaray, G.I. & Hess, R.F. (2005). A comparison of the BOLD fMRI response to achromatic, L/M opponent and S-cone opponent cardinal stimuli in human visual cortex I. Perceptually matched vs contrast matched stimuli. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, May 6-11, 2005, Sarasota, Florida.
191. Mullen, K.T., Dumoulin, S.O., McMahon, K.L., Bryant, M., de Zubicaray, G.I. & Hess, R.F. (2005). The fMRI response of the LGN and V1 to cardinal red-green, blue-yellow, and achromatic visual stimuli. 28th European Conference on Visual Perception, A Coruna, Spain, 22-26 August, 2005. Perception (Supplement, 34, 27.
2006
192. Barnes, G, Dumoulin, S & Hess R. F. (2006) The structural deficit in amblyopia. Human Brain Mapping. Florence, Italy.
193. Gareth R. Barnes, Krish D. Singh,Xingfeng Li, Serge O. Dumonlin,Robert F. Hess, The deficit in humans with amblyopia: structure vs. function, 12th Annual Meeting of Human Brain Mapping, June 11-15, 2006, Florence, Italy. Poster No. 422 T-PM.
194. Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2006). Contour sparseness and the interactions in the visual processing of local phase alignment of natural scene contours. Abstract #568a. Vision Science Society Meeting, Sarasota. Florida.
195. Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2006, Aug). Local moment, orientation, contour and texture fixation statistics following brief adaptation or during free-viewing of natural scene images. Poster session to be given at the Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment Biannual Meeting; Gordon Research Conferences, Big Sky, MT.
196. Hess, R. F. The cortical abnormaility in amblyopia. (April 2006) Keynote address at the Queensland Vision Congress, Cairns. Aust.
197. Hess, R. F. (April 2006). The positional deficit in strabismic amblyopia. (April 2006) invited lecture at the Queensland Vision Congress, Cairns. Aust.
198. Hess, R. F. & Hansen, B (May 2006) How important is spatial phase in texture and contour integration VSS Meeting, Sarasota.Fl. Abstract #214a. Vision Science Society Meeting, May 5-10, 2006, Sarasota. Florida.
199. Huang, P-C, Mullen, K & Hess, R. F. (2006) Flank facilitation for chromatic stimuli. VSS Meeting, Sarasota. Fl. Abstract #223a. Vision Science Society Meeting, May 5-10, 2006, Sarasota, Florida.
200. Li, X.-F., Dumoulin, S.O., Mansouri , B. & Hess, R.F. (2006). The fidelity of the retinotopic cortical map in amblyopia measured with BOLD-fMRI. Abstract #648a. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, May 5-10, 2006, Sarasota, Florida.
201. Li, X.-F. & Hess, R.F. (2006). Receptive Fields difference in normal and amblyopia subjects, 12th Annual Meeting of Human Brain Mapping, June 11-15, 2006, Florence, Italy.
202. Li, X.-F., Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2006). Spatial frequency-dependence of the cortical deficit in human amblyopia. 36th Soc. Neuroscience meeting, Oct. 12-16, 2006, Atlanta, USA.
203. Mansouri, B. & Hess, R. F. (2006) Signal segregation not noise integration is abnormal in amblyopia. ARVO. Ft Lauderdale, Fl.
204. Mansouri, B & Hess, R. F. (2006) A disrupted retinotopic map in amblyopia. Abstract #649. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, May 5-10, 2006, Sarasota, Florida.
205. Farivar, R., Mansouri, B., Li, X-F. & Hess, R.F. (2006). Within-voxel variability of the hemodynamic response function of early visual areas in amblyopes. 36th Soc. Neuroscience meeting, Oct. 12-16, 2006, Atlanta, USA.
206. May, K and Hess, R. F. (2006) Snakes are as fast as ladders: evidence against the hypothesis that contrast facilitation mediates contour detection. Abstract #443. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, May 5-10, 2006, Sarasota, Florida.
2007
207. Aaen-Stockdale, C., Hess, R. F., & Ledgeway, T. (2007). Second-order optic flow processing in amblyopia [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 7(9):394, 394a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/393/, doi:10.1167/7.9.393.
208. Hess, R., & Aaen-Stockdale, C. (2007). Global Motion: effects of spatial scale and eccentricity [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 7(9):394, 394a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/394/, doi:10.1167/7.9.394.
209. Hess R.F., Thompson B., Hansen B.C. and Troje N.F. (2007), Peripheral vision; good for biological motion, bad for signal/noise segregation. Perception, 36, ECVP Abstract Supplement.
210. Huang,P.-C., & Hess, R. F. (2007). Collinear facilitation: effects of additive and multiplicative visual noise. J. Vision, 7 (9) 250a.
211. Mansouri, B., Thompson, B., Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Dichoptic motion integation in amblyopia. 37th Soc. Neuroscience meeting, Nov. 3-7, 2007, San Diego, USA.
212. Thompson, B., Hansen, B.C. Stockdale, C. and Hess, R.F. (2007). Current directions in amblyopia research. Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology. (Canadian Ophthalmological Society and Affiliated Societies conference proceedings, abstract in press).
213. Thompson, B., Hansen, B.C., Hess, R.F. and Troje, N.F. (2007). Amblyopic perception of biological motion. Journal of Vision, 7(9), 485-485. (VSS conference proceedings).
214. Thompson, B., Fariva, R. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Binocular suppression in amblyopia. 37th Soc. Neuroscience meeting, Nov. 3-7, 2007, San Diego, USA.
2008
215. Aaen-Stockdale, C & Hess, R.F. (2008). Spatial scale invariance of the amblyopic global motion deficit. Vision Science Society Meeting, May 9-14, 2008, Naples, Florida. J. Vision 8(6):21,21a.
216. Aaen-Stockdale, C.R., Thompson, B., Huang, P-C. & Hess, R.F. (2008) A low-level explanation of paradoxical motion percepts [OSA Fall Vision Meeting Abstract]. Journal of Vision.
217. Aaen-Stockdale, C., Thompson, B., Koski, L. & Hess, R.F. (2008). Repetitive TMS reveals a double dissociation between V1 and V5 in the perception of pattern motion. Soc. Neuroscience. Washington D.C.
218. Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2008). Local orientation and texture fixation statistics during free-viewing of natural scene images following brief adaptation. Vision Science Society Meeting, May 9-14, 2008, Naples, Florida.
219. Hess, R., Mullen, K. Thompson, B. & Gole, G.. (2008). LGN abnormalities in human amblyopes revealed by high-field fMRI. Vision Science Society Meeting, May 9-14, 2008, Naples, Florida.
220. Hess, R.F., Thompson, B., Gole, G. & Mullen, K.T. (2008). The LGN deficit in amblyopia is selective for parvocellular function. Soc. Neuroscience. Washington D.C.
221. Huang, P.-C. & Hess, R. (2008). Dynamics of collinear facilitation: fast yet sustained. Vision Science Society Meeting, May 9-14, 2008, Naples, Florida.
222. Maehara, G., Huang P.-C. & Hess, R.F. (2008). The importance of static phase-aligned, high spatial frequency components for continuous flash suppression. Vision Science Society Meeting, May 9-14, 2008, Naples, Florida.
223. Maehara, G., Huang, P-C., & Hess, R. F. (2008). The effect of flankers on TvC functions in binocular, monocular, and dichoptic presentations. [OSA Fall Vision Meeting Abstract], Journal of Vision.
224. Mansouri, B., Thompson, B. & Hess, R.F. (2008). Intact binocular interaction in amblyopia: a new gateway to treatment of amblyopia. ARVO Meeting, April 27-May 1, 2008, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
225. Mansouri, B., Thompson, B. & Hess, R.F. (2008). Improvements in binocular vision following a new binocularly-based treatment for amblyopia. Soc. Neuroscience. Washington D.C.
226. May, K. & Hess, R.F. (2008). Testing filter-overlap models of contour integration. Vision Science Society Meeting, May 9-14, 2008, Naples, Florida.
227. Mullen, K.T., Thompson, B. & Hess, R.F. (2008). Response of the human LGN to different temporal frequencies for achromatic, L/M opponent and S-cone opponent stimuli measured with high field fMRI. Vision Science Society Meeting, May 9-14, 2008, Naples, Florida.
228. Thompson, B., Mansouri, B., Koski, L. & Hess, R.F. (2008). RTMS: A new treatment possibility for amblyopia. ARVO Meeting, April 27-May 1, 2008, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
229. Thompson, B., Mansouri, B., Koski, L. & Hess, R.F. (2008). rTMS over visual cortex can improve contrast detection in amblyopia. Soc. Neuroscience. Washington D.C.
2009
230. Maehara, G., Thompson, B., Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2009). The roles of contrast and luminance in amblyopic suppression . Vision Science Society Meeting May 8-13, 2009, Naples, Florida.
231. Richard, A., Thompson, B., Hess, R.F., Aaen-Stockdale, C. & Pack, C.C. (2009).Motion direction discrimination in strabismic amblyopia: effects of stimulus contrast and size. Vision Science Society Meeting May 8-13, 2009, Naples, Florida.
232. Hess, R. F., Thompson, B, Li, X & Hansen, B mapping spatial frequency across the amblyopic cortex. Vision Science Society Meeting May 8-13, 2009, Naples, Florida.
233. Hess, R. F. Thompson, B, Gole, G & Mullen, K. T. Anomalous cellular responses from the LGN in humans with amblyopia. CBBCS meeting in York, UK July
234. Hansen, B Thompson, B, Hess, R. F. & Ellemberg, D Reverse Correlation Between the N170 and Fractal Noise Yields Human Faces: A Time-Frequency Spectrum Analysis. Vision Science Society Meeting May 8-13, 2009, Naples, Florida.
235. May, K and Hess, R. F. Implementing curve detectors for contour integration. AVA meeting University of Bradford, UK Dec 14th
2010
236. Meso, A.I &Hess, R.F, Visual motion gradient sensitivity reveals integration properties of global motion perception. Australian Neuroscience Society Annual meeting proceedings. (Feb 2010).
237. Meso, A.I, & Hess, R.F, Comparing properties of the spatial integration of local signals into perceived global structure. Vision Sciences Society meeting (May 2010).
238. Hess, R., Mansouri, B. & Thompson, B. A new binocular approach to the treatment of amblyopia in adults well beyond the critical period of visual development. XIX Biennial Meeting of the Internatioal Societ for Eye Research, Jul 18-23, 2010, Montreal, Canada.
239. Thompson, B., Mansouri, B. , Koski, L., Goodman, L., Clavagnier, S. & Hess, R.F. Non-invasive transcranial stimulation of the amblyopic visual cortex. XIX Biennial Meeting of the Internatioal Societ for Eye Research, Jul 18-23, 2010, Montreal, Canada.
240. Clavagnier S, Thompson B, & Hess R F. Restoring plasticity in the human amblyopic cortex: effect of Theta bursts. 33th European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland. August22-26. 2010. Perception 39.
241. Hess, R. F. & Zaharia, G. A. Light stops play; Motion at low luminances. 33th European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland. August22-26. 2010.
242. Huang, P.-C., Maehara, G. & Hess, R.F A role for spatial alignments in early vision. Optical Society of America Fall Vision Meeting, Rochester, Oct 22-24, 2010.
243. Husk, J.S., Farivar-Mohseni, R. & Hess, R.F. Amblyopic deficits in structure-from-motion processing. Optical Society of America Fall Vision Meeting, Rochester, Oct. 22-24, 2010.
244. Meso, A.I. & Hess, R.F. Visual detection of orientation modulators suggests limitations to scale invariance of second order mechanisms. Optical Society of America Fall Vision Meeting, Rochester, Occt 22-24, 2010.
245. Hess, R.F., Thompson, B., Gole, G. & Mullen, K.T. The amblyopic deficit and its relationship to geniculo-cortical processing streams. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego November13-17, 2010.
246. Villeneuve, M, Thompson, B, Hess, R. F.& Casanova, C. Pattern motion selectivity in areas MT and MST of the human extrastriate visual cortex. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego November 13-17, 2010.
247. Thompson, B, Villeneuve, M, Casanova, C and Hess, R. F. Pattern motion responses in the visual cortex of humans with amblyopia. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego November, 13-17, 2010.
248. Dumoulin, S. Hess, R. F. & Harvey, B. M. Measuring contour integration mechanisms using fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego November 13-17, 2010.
251. A new binocular treatment for amblyopia. 1st City University Symposium on amblyopia, City university, London, UK Sept. 28, 2010
249. New treatment options for strabismic and anisometropic amblyopia. 4th Martin Steinbeck lecture, Dept. Ophthalmology, University of Toronto. Canada Nov. 5th, 2010
2011
250. Maehara, G, Hess, R. F. and Georgeson, M. Direction discrimination thresholds in monocular, binocular and dichoptic viewing: motion opponency and contrast gain control. Society for Vision, Naples Fl May, 2011
251. Farivar-Mohseni, R. Hansen, B Clavagnier, S and Hess, R. F.What does the cortex really care about, frequencies or features. Society for neuroscience, Washington, Nov. 2011
252. Hess, R. F. and Thompson, B. A new binocular treatment for amblyopia. AAPOS workshop. San Diego, February, 2011
253. Thompson, B and Hess, R F Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the amblyopic visual cortex. AAPOS workshop. San Diego, February, 2011
254. Visual plasticity in the adult; supernormal and subnormal vision. Hess, R. F. Plastic Brain Conference, York University, June 14-18, 2011.
255. Baker, D, Hess, R. F. and Meese, T How much of noise masking derives from noise? European Conference on Visual perception, Toulouse, France August 2011
2012
256. Hess, R. F. Huang, P-C. Properties of suppression. ARVO, fort Lauderdale Florida. 2012 May 3-10
257. Huang, P-C, Li, J, Deng, D, Yu, M, & Hess, R. F. Synchrony in amblyopia. Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision. July 13-15, 2012, Incheon, Korea.
258. Clavagnier, S. Thompson, B and Hess R. F. Long lasting contrast sensitivity improvement after daily cTBS sessions in adults with amblyopia. Vision Science Society conference Naples, Florida, May 11-16th.
259. Reynaud, A and Hess, R. F. Channels underlying texture discrimination. . Vision Science Society conference Naples, Florida, May 11-16th.
260. Spiegel, D. P. Hess, R. F. Byblow, W. D. and Thompson, B. Transcranial direct current stimulation of the visual cortex in adults with amblyopia. Vision Science Society conference Naples, Florida, May 11-16th.
261. Hess, R. F. A binocular approach to amblyopia therapy. World Congress of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Sept 8th 2012 Milan Italy
2013
262. Daniel P. Spiegel, Jinrong Li, Robert F. Hess, Winston D. Byblow, Long To, Jeremy Cooperstock, Minbin Yu, Benjamin Thompson. Anodal tDCS enhances the Effect of Binocular Therapy on Stereopsis in Adults with Amblyopia. ARVO Seattle, Washington, May 05-09 (submitted)
263. Li, J, Yu, m Thompson, B and Hess, R. F.Do Bangerter filters promote binocular function in amblyopes? ARVO Seattle, Washington, May 05-09 (submitted)
264. Li, J, Yu, M, Chen L, Thompson, B and Hess, R. F.Dichoptic perceptual learning induces visual plasticity in adult amblyopes ARVO Seattle, Washington, May 05-09 (submitted)
265. Thompson, B., Maehara, G., Farivar, R., Mansouri, B., Clavagnier, S. & Hess R.F. Interocular suppression in the visual cortex of adults with strabismic amblyopia: an fMRI study. ARVO Seattle, Washington, May 05-09 (submitted)
266. Hess, R. F, Witz, N Mechanisms underlying global stereopsis in fovea and periphery. ARVO Seattle, Washington, May 05-09 (submitted)
267. Renaud, A, Zhou, J and Hess, R. F. Uniocular changes in mean luminance affect stereo. VSS Naples FL
268. Zhou, J and Hess, R. F. Modulating sensory dominance. VSS Naples FL
269. Zhou, J and Hess, R. F. Are we occluding the wrong eye in amblyopia?. ARVO Seattle, Washington, May 05-09 (submitted)
270. Raiju Jacob Babu, Simon R. Clavagnier, William Bobier, Benjamin Thompson and Robert F Hess. A method for measuring suppression scotomata: a strabismic and non-strabismic comparison. ARVO Seattle, Washington, May 05-09 (submitted)
2014
A new treatment for amblyopia. Hess R F Southern Regional Congress of the Australian Optometric Association. Melbourne, Australia, March 1-4, 2014.
Binocular combination of second-order stimuli in normals and amblyopes. Zhou, J., Liu, R., Zhou Y. and Hess R.F. ARVO Orlando, Fl May 4-8, 2014
A new approach to vision therapy. Hess R F Invited symposium. ARVO Orlando, Fl May 4-8, 2014 An effective treatment for amblyopia in adults, Hess R F ATRA meeting Harvard USA, July 22 2014
Investigating the shape of the contrast sensitivity function using white, bandpass, and contrast jitter noise. Baldwin, A. S. and Hess, R. F. VSS St Petersburg, Fl May 16-21, 2014
A unified framework and normative dataset for second-order sensitivity using the quick Contrast Sensitivity Function (qCSF). Reynaud, A., Tang, Y, Zhou, Y, Hess, R. F.. VSS St Petersburg, Fl May 16-21, 2014
Dynamics of dichoptic masking in the primary visual cortex. Chadnova,E, Reynaud, A, Clavagnier, S, Baker, D. H, Baillet, S, Hess, R. F. 2014 Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting July 26, 2014- July 31, 2014 Quebec city
Monocular luminance reduction decreases dichoptic processing in primary visual cortex. Chadnova,E, Reynaud, A, Clavagnier, S, Baker, D. H, Hess, R. F, Baillet, S. The 19th International Conference on Biomagnetism August 24-August 28, 201Halifax, Canada
Is the Cortical Magnification reduced for the amblyopic eye? Clavagnier, S., Dumoulin, S. O., and Hess, R. F. VSS St Petersburg, Fl May16-21, 2014
fMRI adaptation of color and achromatic contrast in the human LGN and visual cortex: evidence for color and luminance selectivity. Chang, D. H. F, Hess, R. F, Thompson, B, Mullen, K. T.. VSS St Petersburg, Fl May16-21, 2014
2015
Up-regulation of central catecholamines preserve ocular motor function in exercise fatigue. Connell C., Thompson B., Hess R. F., Gustav Kuhn and Nicholas Gant. Neuroscience 2015, Chicago, 2015-10-17
A new approach to treating amblyopia. Hess R.F. 3rd WSPOS congress, Barcelona,2015-09-04
Restoring visual function in amblyopic adults.Hess R.F. Fourth Lasker/IRRF Initiative for Innovation in Vision Science, Woodshole, 2015-08-09
Afresh look at treating amblyopia. Hess R.F. Vision China 2015, Chengdu, 2015-08-01
Modulating ocular dominance in the adult in real time. Hess R. F., Zhou J. and Reynaud A. The 15th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Tampa, 2015-05-15
Rejecting probability summation for RF patterns, not so Quick! Baldwin, A. S., Schmidtmann, G., Kingdom , F. A. and Hess R. F. The 15th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Tempa, 2015-05-15
Dipper functions for second-order modulation of contrast, orientation, and motion. Gao, Y., Baldwin, A. S. and Hess, R. F. The 15th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Tampa, 2015-05-15
Short-term ocular dominance changes in human V1. Chadnova E., Reynaud A., Clavagnier S., Baillet S., and Hess R. F. The 15th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Tampa, 2015-05-15
Dichoptic Movie Treatment of Childhood Amblyopia. Li S. L., Reynaud A., Hess R. F., Wang Y., Jost R. M., Morale S. E., De La Cruz, A. Dao, L. Stager Jr, and D. Birch E. E. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Denver, 2015-05-02
Short-term monocular patching boosts the cortical response to the patched eye. Zhou, J., Baker, D. H., Simard, M., Saint-Amour, D. &. Hess, R. F. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Denver, 2015-05-02
The relationship between fusion, suppression and diplopia in amblyopia. Spiegel, D. P., Baldwin, A. S., Georgeson, M. A. and Hess, R. F. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Denver, 2015-05-02
Binocular Movie Treatment of Amblyopia ImprovesVisual Acuity in Children. Li S. L., Reynaud A., Hess R. F., Wang Y., Jost R. M., Morale S. E., De La Cruz, A. Dao, L. Stager Jr and D. Birch, E. E. AAPOS, New Orleans, 2015-03-25
A review of the therapeuric options for amblyopia. R F Hess. Invited talk. Lasker/IRRF Initiative on Amblyopia. Woods Hole, MA 9-11th August, 2015
A new binocular Approach to Therapy. R F Hess. Invited talk 3r World Congress in pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Barcellona 2nd-6th September, 2015
Teaching
1985-1990
Vision lectures
Natural Science Tripos
University of Cambridge, UK
Demonstrator, Special Senses
Natural Science & Medical Tripos
Dept. Physiology, Cambridge, UK
Tutor, Cardiaovascular Physiology
Medical Science Tripos
St Catharines College, Cambridge
Tutor, Special Senses
Natural Science & Medical Tripos
St Catharines College, Cambridge
1990-present
Perception lectures , Dept psychology 2012
Vision lectures PSYC 212
Principles of Neuroscience II, Integrated Program in Neuroscience
McGill University, Canada
Vision lectures
Neurology Residence program
Dept. Neurology and Neurosurgery
Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada
Visual processing; basic and clinical
Ophthalmology Residents Program
Dept. Ophthalmology,
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal.