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Publications

1.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. (1972). Rods cancel cones in flicker. Nature, 235, 173-174.  PDF
2.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. (1972). The Schroedinger equation in binocular brightness combination. Perception, 
   1, 321-324.  PDF
3.
 Lennie, P. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1973). Background configuration and rod threshold. Journal of Physiology,
   233, 143-156.  PDF
4.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. and Lennie, P. (1973). A Unilateral Defect Resembling Deuteranopia. Modern Problems
   in Ophthalmology, 13, 130-134.  PDF
5.
 Gosline, C.J., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Rushton, W.A.H. (1973). Rod dark-adaptation measured above the cone
   threshold. Journal of Physiology, 234, 27-28.
6.
 Bonds, A.B. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1974). The bleaching and regeneration of rhodopsin in the cat. 
   Journal of Physiology, 242, 237-253.  PDF
7.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. (1974). Directionally selective light adaptation: A visual consequence of receptor disarray?
   Vision Research, 14, 369-378.  PDF
8.
 MacLeod, D.I.A., Virsu, V. and Carpenter, R.H.S. (1974). On mathematical illusions. Perception 
   and Psychophysics, 16, 417-418.  PDF
9.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. and Hayhoe, M.M. (1974). Three pigments in normal and anomalous color vision. 
   Journal of the Optical Society of America, 64, 37-42.  PDF
10.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. and Hayhoe, M.M. (1974). Rod origin of prolonged afterimages. Science, 185, 1171-1172.  PDF
11.
 Barlow, H.B., MacLeod, D.I.A. and van Meeteren, A. (1976). Adaptation to gratings: No compensatory 
   advantages found. Vision Research, 16, 1043-1045.  PDF
12.
 Gosline, C.J., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Rushton, W.A.H. (1976). The dark adaptation curve of rods measured 
   by their afterimage. Journal of Physiology, 259, 491-499.  PDF
13.
 Hayhoe, M.M. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1976). A single anomalous photopigment? Journal of the Optical 
   Society of America, 66, 276-277.
14.
 Hayhoe, M.M., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Bruch, T. (1976). Rod-cone independence in dark adaptation. Vision
   Research, 16, 591-600.  PDF
15.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. and Lennie, P. (1976). Red-green blindness confined to one eye. Vision Research, 
   16, 691-702.  PDF
16.
 Conner, J.D. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1977). Rod photoreceptors detect rapid flicker. Science, 
   195, 698-699.  PDF
17.
 Boynton, R.M., Hayhoe, M.M. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1977). The gap effect: Chromatic and achromatic 
   visual discrimination as affected by field separation. Optica Acta, 24, 159-177.  PDF
18.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. (1978). Visual sensitivity. Annual Review of Psychology, 29, 613-645.  PDF
19.
 Blick, D.W. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1978). Rod threshold: Influence of neighboring cones. Vision 
   Research, 18, 1611-1616.  PDF
20.
 Bonds, A.B. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1978). A displaced Stiles-Crawford effect associated with an 
   eccentric pupil. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 17, 754-761.  PDF
21.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. and Boynton, R.M. (1979). Chromaticity diagram showing cone excitation by stimuli 
   of equal luminance. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 69, 1183-1186.  PDF
22.
 Williams, D.R. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1979). Interchangeable backgrounds for cone afterimages. Vision 
   Research, 19, 867-878.  PDF
23.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. and Boynton, R.M. (1980). Rectangular chromaticity diagram showing cone excitations at 
   constant luminance. In Colour Vision Deficiencies V, ed. Verriest, G., London: Adam Hilger.
24.
 Eisner, A. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1980). Blue-sensitive cones do not contribute to luminance. 
   Journal of the Optical Society of America, 70, 121-122.  PDF
25.
 Frome, F., MacLeod, D.I.A., Buck, S. and Williams, D.R. (1981). Large loss of visual sensitivity to 
   flashed peripheral targets. Vision Research, 21, 1323-1328.  PDF
26.
 Williams, D.R., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Hayhoe, M.M. (1981). Foveal tritanopia. Vision Research, 21, 
   1341-1356.  PDF
27.
 Williams, D.R., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Hayhoe, M.M. (1981). Punctate sensitivity of the blue-sensitive 
   mechanism. Vision Research, 21, 1357-1376.  PDF
28.
 Eisner, A. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1981). Flicker photometric study of chromatic adaptation: Selective 
   suppression of cone inputs by colored backgrounds. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 71, 705-718.  PDF
29.
 Nagy, A., MacLeod, D.I.A., Heyneman, N. and Eisner, A. (1981). Four cone pigments in women heterozygous 
   for color deficiency. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 71, 719-722.  PDF
30.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. (1981). Concluding remarks from a psychophysical perspective. Color Research and 
   Application, 6, 249.  PDF
31.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. (1982). The estimation of cone spectral sensitivities. Color Research and 
   Application, 7, 142-145.  PDF
32.
 Lennie, P., Hayhoe, M. and Mac Leod, D.I.A. (1982). Stabilized vision through a bleaching window. 
   Vision Research, 22, 827-833.  PDF
33.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. and Webster, M.A. (1983). Factors influencing the color matches of normal observers. 
   In Colour Vision, eds. Mollon, J.D. and Sharpe, L.T., London: Academic Press.
34.
 Golomb, B., Andersen, R.A., Nakayama, K., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Wong, A. (1985). Visual thresholds for 
   shearing motion in monkey and man. Vision Research, 25, 813-820.  PDF
35.
 Nakayama, K., Silverman, G., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Mulligan, J.B. (1985). Sensitivity to shearing and 
   compressive motion in random dots. Perception, 14, 225-238.  PDF
36.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. (1985). Receptoral constraints on color appearance. In Central and Peripheral Mechanisms 
   of Color Vision, eds. Ottoson, D. and Zeki, S., London: MacMillan.  PDF
37.
 Rushton, W. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1986). The equivalent background of bleaching. Perception, 15, 689-703.  PDF
38.
 Anstis, S., Cavanagh, P., Maurer, D., Lewis, T., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Mather, G. (1986). Computer-generated 
   screening test for colorblindness. Color Research and Application, 11, S63-S66.  PDF
39.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. (1986). Computer controlled color displays in vision research: Possibilities and 
    problems. Color Research and Application, 11, S45-46.  PDF
40.
 Chen, B., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Stockman, A. (1987). Improvement in human vision under bright light: 
   Grain or gain? Journal of Physiology, 394, 41-66.  PDF
41.
 Cavanagh, P., MacLeod, D.I.A. & Anstis, S.M. (1987). Equiluminance: Spatial and temporal factors and 
   the contribution of blue-sensitive cones. Journal of the Optical Society of America, A4, 1428-1438.  PDF
42.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. and Stockman, A. (1987). Duplicity, phase lags and destructive interference in mesopic 
   and scotopic flicker perception. In Night Vision, eds. Johnson, C.A. and Leibowitz, H., Washington: 
   National Academy Presss.  PDF
43.
 Mulligan, J.B. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1988). Reciprocity between luminance and dot density in the 
   perception of brightness. Vision Research, 28, 503-519.  PDF
44.
 Webster, M.A. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1988). Factors underlying individual differences in the color 
   matches of normal observers. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 5, 1722-1735.  PDF
45.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. and Webster, M.A. (1988). Direct psychophysical estimates of the cone-pigment 
   absorption spectra. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 6, 1736-1743.  PDF
46.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. and Boynton, R.M. (1989). Remarks on the constant luminance chromaticity diagram. 
   Color: Research and Application, 4, 157-158.  PDF
47.
 MacLeod, D.I.A., Chen, B. and Crognale, M. (1989). Spatial organization of sensitivity regulation in 
   rod vision. Vision Research, 29, 965-978.  PDF
48.
 Sharpe, L.T., Stockman, A., and MacLeod, D.I.A., (1989). Rod flicker perception: Scotopic duality, 
   phase lags and destructive interference. Vision Research, 29, 1539-1559.  PDF
49.
 Walraven, J., Enroth-Cugell, C., Hood, D.C., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Schnapf, J.L. (1990). The control 
   of visual sensitivity: Receptoral and postreceptoral processes. In The Neurophysiological Foundations 
   of Visual Perception, eds. Spillman, L. and Werner, J., London: Academic Press.
50.
 MacLeod, D.I.A., Chen, B. and Stockman, A. (1990) Why do we see better in bright light? In Visual 
   Coding and Efficiency, eds. Blakemore, C.B., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
51.
 Cicerone, C.M. Hayhoe, M.M. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1990). The spread of adaptation in human foveal and 
   parafoveal cone vision. Vision Research, 30, 1603-1615.  PDF
52.
 Mulligan, J.B. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1991). Visual sensitivity to spatially sampled modulation in 
   human observers. Vision Research., 31, 895-905.  PDF
53.
 Stockman, A., MacLeod, D.I.A., and DePriest, D.D. (1991). The temporal properties of the human 
   short-wave photoreceptors and their associated pathways. Vision Research, 31, 189-208.  PDF
54.
 Brown, R.O. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1992). Saturation and color constancy. Advances in Color Vision 
   Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D. C., 1992), 4, 110-111.  PDF
55.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. (1992). Quasi-mechanistic accounts of color constancy. Advances in Color Vision 
   Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D. C., 1992), 4, 104-106.  PDF
56.
 MacLeod, D.I.A., Williams, D.R., and Makous, W. (1992). A visual nonlinearity fed by single cones. 
   Vision Research, 32, 347-363.  PDF
57.
 MacLeod, D.I.A. and He, S. (1993). Visible flicker from invisible patterns. Nature, 361, 256-258.  PDF
58.
 Ahn, S. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1993). Link-specific adaptation in the luminance and chromatic channels. 
   Vision Research, 33, 2271-2286.  PDF
59.
 Stockman, A., MacLeod, D.I.A., & LeBrun, S. (1993). Faster than the eye can see: blue cones 
   respond to rapid flicker. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 10, 1396-1402.  PDF
60.
Stockman, A., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Vivien, J.A. (1993) Isolation of the middle- and long-wavelength-
   sensitive cones in normal trichromats. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 10, 2471-2490.  PDF
61.
Stockman, A., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Johnson, N.E. (1993) Spectral sensitivities of the human cones. 
   Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 10, 2471-2490.  PDF
62.
Smallman, H.S. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1994) Size-disparity correlation in stereopsis at contrast 
   threshold. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 11, 2169-2183.  PDF
63.
Mulligan, J.B. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1994) In search of an optoretinogram. In Vision Science and Its 
   Applications (Technical Digest Series, vol.2 ), Washington: Optical Society of America.  PDF
64.
MacLeod, D.I.A and Willen, J.D. (1995) Is there a visual space? In Geometric representations of 
   perceptual phenomena: Papers in honor of Tarow Indow on his 70th birthday, eds. Luce, R.D., 
   D'Zmura, M., Hoffman, D.D., Iverson, G.J. and Romney, A.K.,  Mahwah, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,  Inc.  PDF
65.
Highnote, S. M., Flint, G., and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1996) Color discrimination of small fields on 
   self-luminous displays. Society for Information Display, 96, 727-730. PDF
66.
MacLeod, D.I.A. and von der Twer, T. (1996) “Optimal nonlinear codes.” Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre 
   Forschung, Report Number 28/96, 1-18.  PDF
67.
He, S., & MacLeod, D.I.A. (1996). Local luminance nonlinearity and receptor aliasing in the detection of 
   high-frequency gratings. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 13, 1139-1151.  PDF
68.
Smallman, H.S., MacLeod, D.I.A., He, S. and Kentridge, R.W. (1996). Fine grain of the neural 
   representation of human spatial vision. Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 1852-9.  PDF
69.
Smallman, H.S., & MacLeod, D.I.A. (1997). Spatial scale interactions in stereo sensitivity and the 
   neural representation of binocular disparity. Perception, 26, 977-994.  PDF
70.
Welch, L., Macleod, D.I.A., & McKee, S.P. (1997). Motion interference: perturbing perceived 
   direction. Vision Research, 37, 2725-2736.  PDF
71.
Brown, R.O. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1997). Color appearance depends on the variance of surround colors. 
   Current Biology, 7, 844-849. PDF
72.
He, S. and Macleod, D.I.A. (1998). Contrast-modulation flicker: dynamics and spatial resolution of 
   the light adaptation process. Vision Research, 38, 985-1000.  PDF
73.
McMahon, M.J. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1998). Dichromatic color vision at high light levels: red/green 
   discrimination using the blue-sensitive mechanism. Vision Research, 38, 973-83.  PDF
74.
He, S. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1998). Local nonlinearity in S-cones and their estimated light-collecting 
   apertures. Vision Research, 38, 1001-1006.  PDF
75.
Cohn, T.E. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (1999). Flash masking and facilitation by nearby luminance perturbations.
   Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 16, 750-754.  PDF
76.
He, S. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (2000). Spatial and temporal properties of light adaptation in the rod 
   system. Vision Research, 40, 3073-3081.  PDF
77.
Beer, R.D. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (2000). Pre-exposure to contrast selectively compresses the achromatic
   half-axes of color space. Vision Research, 40, 3083-3088.  PDF
78.
He, S. and MacLeod D. I A. (2001). Orientation-selective adaptation and tilt after-effect from 
   invisible patterns. Nature, 411, 473-476.  PDF
79.
McMahon, M. J. and MacLeod, D. I. A. Retinal contrast losses and visual resolution with obliquely 
   incident light.  Journal of the Optical Society of America, 18, 2692-2703.  PDF
80.
Smallman, H.S., Macleod, D.I.A. and Doyle, P. (2001) Realignment of cones after cataract removal. 
   Nature, 412, 604-605.  PDF
81.
von der Twer, T. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (2001) Optimal nonlinear codes for the perception of natural 
   colours. Network, 12, 395-407.  PDF
82.
Golz, J. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (2002) Influence of scene statistics on colour constancy. Nature, 415, 
   637-40.  PDF
83.
Fine, I., Smallman, H.S., Doyle, P. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (2002). Visual function before and after the 
   removal of bilateral congenital cataracts in adulthood. Vision Research, 42, 191-210.  PDF
84.
Shady, S. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (2002). Color from invisible patterns. Nature Neuroscience, 5, 729-730.  PDF
85.
MacLeod, D.I.A. (2003). Colour Discrimination, Colour Constancy, and Natural Scene Statistics 
   (The Verriest Lecture). In Normal and Defective Colour Vision, eds. Mollon, J.D., Pokorny, 
   J. and Knoblauch, K., London: Oxford University Press.  PDF
86.
Fine, I., MacLeod, D.I.A. and Boynton, G.M. (2003). Surface segmentation based on the luminance and 
   color statistics of natural scenes. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 20, 1283-1291.  PDF
87.
Golz, J. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (2003). Colorimetry for CRT displays. Journal of the Optical Society 
   of America, 20, 769-81.  PDF
88.
MacLeod, D.I.A. (2003) New dimensions in color perception. Trends in Cognitive Science 7, 97-99.
89.
McMahon, M.J. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (2003) The origin of the oblique effect examined with pattern 
   adaptation and masking. Journal of Vision, 3, 230-239.  PDF
90.
Fine I., Wade A.R., Brewer A.A., May M.G., Goodman D.F., Boynton G.M., Wandell B.A. and MacLeod D.I.A.
   (2003) Long-term deprivation affects visual perception and cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 6, 915-6.  PDF
91.
MacLeod, D.I.A. (2003) From physics to perception through colorimetry: a bridge too far? In Colour 
   Perception: From Light to Object, eds. Heyer, D. and Mausfeld, R., London: Oxford University Press.
92.
MacLeod, D.I.A. (2003) Phenomenology and mechanism. In Colour Perception: From Light to Object, 
   eds. Heyer, D. and Mausfeld, R., London: Oxford University Press.
93.
MacLeod, D.I.A. and Golz, J. (2003). A computational analysis of colour constancy. In Colour 
   Perception: From Light to Object, eds. Heyer, D. and Mausfeld, R., London: Oxford University Press.  PDF
94.
MacLeod, D.I.A. and von der Twer, T. (2003). The pleistochrome: optimal opponent codes for natural 
   colours. In Colour Perception: From Light to Object, eds. Heyer, D. and Mausfeld, R., 
   London: Oxford University Press.  PDF
95.
Shady, S., MacLeod , D.I.A. and Fisher , H.S. (2004) Adaptation from invisible flicker. Proceedings
   of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 101, 5170-5173.  PDF
96.
Lombrozo, T., Judson, J. and MacLeod, D.I.A. (2005) Flexibility of spatial averaging in visual 
   perception. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 272, 725-732.  PDF
97.
Beer, R.D., MacLeod, D. I.A. and Miller, T.P. (2005) The Extended Maxwellian View (BIGMAX): A high-
   intensity, high saturation color display for clinical diagnosis and vision research. Behavior 
   Research Methods, 3, 513-521.  PDF
98.
Vul, E. and MacLeod, D. I.A. (2006) Contingent aftereffects distinguish conscious and preconscious 
   color processing. Nature Neuroscience, 9(7), 873-874.  PDF  (supplement)
99.
Vul, E. Krizay, E. and MacLeod, D. I.A. (2008) The McCollough effect reflects permanent and transient adaptation in early visual cortex. Journal of Vision, 8, 1-12
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 100.
MacLeod, D. I. (in press). Into the Neural Maze. In: Color Ontology and Color Science. J. Cohen and M.
Matthen, eds. Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press.
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