Steven Buck

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Steven Buck, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Guthrie 220
Advising: Does not accept or train psychology graduate students.
Interests: Visual perception, color vision, rod-cone interactions, neural substrate of human vision

Research

My recent research has focused on the perceptual and neural mechanisms of human color vision, including study of the unique characteristics of the colors brown and yellow that are not shared by other basic hues, comparison of brown induction with brightness/darkness induction, the immediate effects of visual context on color perception, long-term adaptation of color vision to features of the environment, retinal neural processing of color information, genetics of color vision variations, and issues of rod participation in the parallel set of cone pathways that mediate color vision.

Education

University of California - San Diego (1976)

  • Buck, S., Shelton, A., Stoehr, B., Hadyanto, V., Tang, M., Morimoto, T., & DeLawyer, T. (2016). Influence of surround proximity on induction of brown and darkness. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 33(3), A12-A21.
  • De Lawyer, T., Morimoto, T., & Buck, S. (2016). Dichoptic Perception of Brown. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 33(3), A123-A128.
  • Morimoto, T., Slezak, E., & Buck, S. (2016). No effects of surround complexity on brown induction. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 33(3), A45-A52.
  • Vincent, J., Kale, A., & Buck, S. (2016). Luminance dependent long-term chromatic adaptation. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 33(3), A164-A169.
  • Buck, S. (2015). Brown. Current Biology, 25, R536–R537.
  • Buck, S. L. (2014). “The interaction of rod and cone signals: pathways and psychophysics.” In J. S. Werner and L. M. Chalupa (Eds.), The New Visual Neurosciences (pp. 485-497). Boston: MIT Press.
  • Buck, S., & DeLawyer, T. (2014). Dark vs. bright equilibrium hues: rod and cone biases. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 31, A75-81.
  • Foote, K., & Buck, S. (2014). Rod hue biases for foveal stimuli on CRT displays. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 31, A23-26.
  • Buck, S., Juve, R., Wisner, D., & Conception, A. (2012). Rod hue biases produced on CRT displays. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 29, A36-A43.
  • Buck, S., Thomas, L., Hillyer, N., & Samuelson, E. (2006). Do rods influence the hue of foveal stimuli? Visual Neuroscience, 23, 519-523
  • Buck, S. L. (2004) Rod-cone interactions. In L. M. Chalupa and J. S. Werner (Eds.), The Visual Neurosciences (pp. 863-878). Boston: MIT Press
  • Thomas, L., & Buck, S. (2004). Generality of Rod Hue Biases with Smaller, Brighter, and Photopically Specified Stimuli. Visual Neuroscience, 21, 257-262
  • Thomas, L., & Buck, S. (2006). Foveal vs. extra-foveal contributions to rod hue biases. Visual Neuroscience, 23, 539-542
  • Knight, R., & Buck, S. (2002). Time-dependent changes of rod influence on hue perception. Vision Research, 42, 1651-62.
  • Buck, S. (2001). What is the hue of rod vision? Color Research & Application, 26 Suppl., S57-S59.
  • Verweij, J., Dacey, D., Peterson, B., & Buck, S. (1999). Sensitivity and dynamics of rod signals in macaque H1 horizontal cells. Vision Research, 39, 3662-3672
  • Buck, S., Knight, R, Fowler, G, & Hunt, B. (1998) Rod influence on hue-scaling functions. Vision Research, 38, 3259-3263
  • Knight, R., Buck, S., Fowler, G, & Nguyen, A. (1998) Rods affect S-cone discrimination on the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue Test. Vision Research, 38, 3477-3481