70:. He has mentored Undergraduate, Masters and PhD students, as well as Postdoctoral fellows. Beau and his lab have published over 70 peer reviewed articles across multiple disciplines including human perception, neuroelectrophysiology, molecular and cellular brain development, bumblebee visual behaviour, digital music, graph theory, complex systems theory, computational evolution, artificial intelligence, architecture, theatre and design. While at the Institute of Ophthalmology, his lab created the first app for the blind that was available on the app store. His lab has received funding from a wide range of institutions including the Wellcome Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the BBSRC, EPSCR and MRC.
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Wicklein, M. (2005) Bees encode behaviourally significant spectral relationships in complex scenes to resolve stimulus ambiguity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102:16870-16874.
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Clarke, R., and Lotto, R.B. (2009) Visual processing of the bee innately encodes higher-order image statistics when the information is consistent with natural ecology. Vision
Research. 49(11):1455-64.
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Chittka, L. (2005) Seeing the light: Illumination as a contextual cue to color choice behavior in bumblebees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 102:3852-3856.
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522:"Books Reviews - Why We See What We Do Redux. A Wholly Empirical Theory of Vision. 2011. By Dale Purves and R. Beau Lotto. Published by Sinauer Associates, Inc.262 pages. C$ 60 approx"
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Haynes, J., Lotto, R. B. and Rees, G. (2004) Responses of human visual cortex to uniform surfaces measured with fMRI. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences USA 101:4286-4291.
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Tibber MS, Manasseh GS, Clarke RC, Gagin G, Swanbeck SN, Butterworth B, Lotto RB, Dakin SC. Vision Res. 2013 Aug 30;89:1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2013.06.006. Epub 2013 Jun 29. (2013).
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Moutsiana C, Garrett N, Clarke RC, Lotto RB, Blakemore SJ, Sharot T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Oct 8;110(41):16396-401. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1305631110. Epub 2013 Sep 9. (2013).
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Bergstrom I, Lotto RB Code
Bending: A New Creative Coding Practice 2014/10/31 MIT Press The MIT Press, 1 Rogers Street, Cambridge MA 02142-1209 USA journals-info@ mit. Edu (2014).
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Lotto, R.B. and Purves, D. (2000) From the cover: An empirical explanation of color contrast. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences USA 97:12834-12839.
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Corney, D. and Lotto, R.B. (2007) From the cover: What are lightness illusions and why do we see them? Public
Library of Science Computational Biology 3:e180.
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Lotto, R.B. and Purves, D. (2001) From the cover: An empirical explanation of the Chubb illusion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 13:547-555.
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Andrews, T. and Lotto, R.B. (2004) Perceptual rivalry is contingent on the perceptual meaning of stimuli. Current Biology. 14:418-423.
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Lotto, R.B. and Purves, D. (2002) From the cover: A rationale for the structure of colour space. Trends in Neuroscience 25:82-86.
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