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Monteiro JAR, Cardeira L, Bailão A, Nascimento SMC, Linhares JMM (2025) Reviving the colors of paintings by removing the protective coating: a physical and virtual intervention. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 74, 322-331
Gomes, AE, Nascimento SMC, and Linhares JMM (2025) Cross-cultural preferences for optimal daylight illumination in viewing human faces. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 42, B525-B533.
Monteiro JAR, Marques DN, Linhares JMM, and Nascimento SMC (2025) Optimal color sets to represent the colors of natural scenes by k-medoids clustering. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 42, B50-B55.
Oliveira PMH, Linhares JMM, Feitosa-Santana C, and Nascimento SMC (2025) Color preferences of Western females with art education. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 42, B534-B541.
Marques DN, Nascimento SMC (2024) How the orientation of the color gamut of natural scenes influences color discrimination in red-green dichromacy. Vision Research, 222, 108435.
Morimoto T, Linhares JMM, Nascimento SMC, and Smithson HE (2024) How many surfaces can you distinguish by color? Real environmental lighting increases discriminability of surface colors. Opt.Express 32, 34246-34253.
Nascimento SMC, Foster DH. (2023) Misidentifying illuminant changes in natural scenes due to failures in relational colour constancy. Proc. R. Soc. B 290: 20231676.
Foster, D. H., & Nascimento, S. M. C. (2023). Little information loss with red-green color deficient vision in natural environments. IScience, 26(8). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107421
Marques, D. N., Gomes, A. E., Linhares, J. M. M., & Nascimento, S. M. C. (2023). Discrimination of natural colors in anomalous trichromacy and the effects of EnChroma and Vino filters. Optics Express, 31(11), 18075. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.451326
Shigeki Nakauchi, Taisei Kondo, Yuya Kinzuka, Yuma Taniyama, Hideki Tamura, Hiroshi Higashi, Kyoko Hine, Tetsuto Minami, João M. M. Linhares, Sérgio M. C. Nascimento (2022), Universality and superiority in preference for chromatic composition of art paintings. Scientific Reports12, 4294.
Nascimento, S.M.C., Albers, A.M., Gegenfurtner, K.R., (2021), Naturalness and aesthetics of colors – Preference for color compositions perceived as natural,Vision Research, 185, pp. 98-110.
Linhares, J.M.M., Monteiro, J.A.R., Bailão, A., Cardeira, L., Kondo, T., Nakauchi, S., Picollo, M., Cucci, C., Casini, A., Stefani, L., Nascimento, S.M.C. (2020), How Good Are RGB Cameras Retrieving Colors of Natural Scenes and Paintings?—A Study Based on Hyperspectral Imaging, Sensors 20, 6242.
Teixeira, M, Nascimento, S, Almeida, V, .Amaral, C, Castelo-Branco, M (2020), The conscious experience of color constancy and neural responses to subliminal deviations – A behavioral and EEG/ERP oddball study, Consciousness and Cognition, 84, 102987.
Feitosa-SantanaC, Gaddi CM, Gomes AE & Nascimento SMC (2020), Art through the Colors of Graffiti: From the Perspective of the Chromatic Structure, Sensors, 20, 2531.
NascimentoSMC, HerdeiroCFM, GomesAE. LinharesJMM, KondoT& NakauchiS (2020), The Best CCT for Appreciation of Paintings under Daylight Illuminants is Different for Occidental and Oriental Viewers,LEUKOS, 1–9.
Montagner C, Linhares JMM, Vilarigues M, & Nascimento SMC (2016), The statistics of colors in paintings and natural scenes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 33(3), (3):A178-A183.
Teixeira M, Pires G, Raimundo M, Nascimento SMC, Almeida VN &Castelo-Branco M (2014), Robust Single Trial Identification of Conscious Percepts Triggered by Sensory Events of Variable Saliency, PLoS One,9, 1.
Baptista A & NascimentoSMC (2014), Changes in spatial extent and peak double optical density of human macular pigment with age, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 31(4), 87-92.
NascimentoSMC & MasudaO(2014), Best lighting for visual appreciation of artistic paintings—experiments with real paintings and real illumination, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 31(4), 214-219.
Perales E, Martínez-Verdu FM, Linhares JMM, Nascimento SMC (2010), Number of descernible colors for color-deficient observers estimated from the MacAdam limits. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 27, 10, 2107- 2114.
de Almeida VMN, Fiadeiro PT, Nascimento SMC (2010), Effect of scene dimensionality on colour constancy with real three-dimensional scenes and objects,Perception, 39(6) 770 – 779.
LinharesJMM, PintoPD, NascimentoSMC(2008), The number of discernible colors in natural scenes.Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 25, 2918-2924.
Pinto PD, Linhares JMM, Nascimento, SM.C (2008), Correlated color temperature preferred by observers for illumination of artistic paintings,Journal of theOptical Society of America A, 23, 2359-2372.
Foster DH, Amano K, NascimentoSMC, & Foster, MJ (2006),Frequency of metamerism in natural scenes, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 23 (10), 2359-2372.
Nascimento SMC, Foster DH, Amano K, (2005), Psychophysical estimates of the number of spectral-reflectance basis functions needed to reproduce natural scenes, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 22 (6): 1017-1022.
NascimentoSMC, Ferreira F & Foster DH (2002), Statistics of spatial cone-excitation ratios in natural scenes,Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 19, 1484-1490.
FosterD.H, Nascimento SMC, ArendL, LinnellKJ, NievesJL, Plet S & FosterJS (2001), Parallel detection of violations of color constancy,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 98, 8151-8156.
Nascimento SMC and Foster DH (1997), Detecting natural changes of cone-excitation ratios in simple and complex coloured images,Proceedings of Royal Society of London B, 264, 1395-1402.
Foster DH & Nascimento SMC (1994), Relational colour constancy from invariant cone-excitation ratios, Proceedings of Royal Society of London B, 257, 115-121.