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Department of Clinical Vision Sciences
Division of Allied Health
Faculty of Health Sciences
La Trobe University
Victoria 3086
Australia
Tel: +61 3 9479 2570
Fax: +61 3 9479 3590
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3rd Floor
Health Sciences 2
Bundoora Campus
La Trobe University

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Department of Clinical Vision Sciences
Adrian Dyer

BACKGROUND

Dr Adrian Dyer is a Senior Research Associate investigating the role of eye movements in the perception and recognition of faces. Other key research interests include ultraviolet vision and the evolution of colour vision in animals.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Colour vision and colour constancy
Ultraviolet vision and imaging
Insect vision
Eye movements and image perception
Face Recognition

MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
Colour Society of Australia
Institute of Photographic Technology

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Dyer, AG (2006) Bumblebees directly perceive variations in the spectral quality of illumination. J Comp Physiol A DOI 10.1007/s00359-005-0088-z

Dyer AG, Neumeyer C, Chittka L (2005) Honeybee (Apis mellifera) vision can discriminate between and recognise images of human faces. J. Exp. Biol. 208,4709 -4714.

Dyer AG, Williams S (2005) A Mechano optical lens array to photographicall simulate insect vision. The Imaging Science Journal 53, 209-213.

Dyer AG, Neumeyer C (2005) Simultaneous and successive colour discrimination in the honeybee (Apis mellifera). Journal of Comparative Physiology A 191, 547-557.A. G.

Dyer (2004) The evolution of flower signals to attract pollinators. Chemistry In Australia, March, 4-6

A. G. Dyer (2004) Flowers coloured by what a bee sees. Australasian Science, March, 26-28.

Dyer AG, Chittka L (2004) Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) sacrifice foraging speed to solve difficult colour discrimination tasks. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 190, 759-763

Dyer AG, Muir LL, Muntz WRA (2004) A calibrated gray scale for forensic ultraviolet photography. Journal of Forensic Sciences 49 No. 5, 1-3.

Dyer AG, Chittka L (2004) Precise colour discrimination requires differential conditioning in bumblebees. Naturwissenschaften. 91, 224-227.

Dyer AG, Chittka L (2004) The biological significance of distinguishing between similar colours in spectrally variable illumination: bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) as a study case. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 190, 105-114.

Dyer AG, Chittka L (2004) Bumblebee search time without ultraviolet light. Journal of Experimental Biology 207, 1683-1688. L. Chittka, A. G.

Dyer, F. Bock, A. Dornhaus (2003) Bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy. Nature (2003). 424, 388.S.

Williams, A. G. Dyer (2002) Seeing through straws. In Images from Science (RIT Press: NY)

A. G. Dyer (2001) Ocular filtering of ultraviolet radiation and the spectral spacing of photoreceptors benefit von Kries colour constancy. Journal of Experimental Biology 204, 2391–2399.

P. G. Kevan, L. Chittka, A. G. Dyer (2001) Limits to the salience of ultraviolet: lessons from the birds and the bees. Journal of Experimental Biology 204, 2571–2580.

A. G. Dyer (1999) Broad spectral sensitivities in the honeybee’s photoreceptors limit colour constancy. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 185, 445–453

A. G. Dyer (1999) Atmospheric ozone concentration and the colour vision of insect pollinators. Australian Journal of Zoology 47, 529–538

A. G. Dyer (1998) The colour of flowers in spectrally variable illumination and insect pollinator vision. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 183, 203–212

A. G. Dyer (1996) The reflection of near ultraviolet radiation from flowers of Australian Native Plants. Aust J Bot 44, 473-488

CommentaryBees for Van Gogh. (2005) Science 309: 1322 (in Random Samples)

More information on Insect Colour Vision
Seeing Through Straws

Last Updated: May 21, 2007