Professor Brian Rogers
I started my academic career as an undergraduate student in Physics and Mathematics but, within a year, I became enticed by the much newer and exciting subject of Psychology. After graduating, I completed a doctoral dissertation on visual perception at Bristol University before moving to St Andrews and my first academic position as a Lecturer and subsequently as a Reader in Psychology. In 1984, I moved to Oxford and was appointed to a Lectureship and Fellowship, where I have been ever since.
As an experimental psychologist, my research interests are in all aspects of human visual perception but specifically in the perception of the 3-D world. There are many sources of information about the 3-D world but two of the most important are binocular stereopsis (using two eyes) and motion parallax (as a consequence of our movements). Our research has shown that human observers are able to use both the small differences or disparities between the images reaching the two eyes and the patterns of relative motion generated as we move around to identify and discriminate the fine details of object structure and layout.
I am also interested in the long-standing philosophical debate between those who see perception as a process of inference and guessing based on sparse information and those who believe that the available information about the world is rich and only needs to be “picked up”. My own view is that perception is better understood as an evolved process that allows us to extract the affordances (meanings) of the world rather than a process for identifying images and objects.
Discovering how humans and other animals perceive the world has important implications for the design and construction of machine vision systems, robotics and the development of display technologies for 3-D TV and cinema. To this end, we have an active collaboration with the Department of Engineering Science in Oxford as well as with many other universities around the world.
- B.Sc. Psychology, 1969, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
- Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, 1976, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
- M.A. 1984, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- 1969-70 Research Assistant in Psychology, University of Bristol
- 1970-72 Postgraduate Student, University of Bristol
- 1972-73 Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, York University, Canada
- 1973-84 Lecturer in Psychology, University of St Andrews, Scotland
- 1984-96 Lecturer in Psychology, University of Oxford
- 1984-98 Fellow and Tutor in Psychology, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
- 1996-2012 Professor of Experimental Psychology
- 2001-2012 Fellow and Tutor in Psychology, Pembroke College
- 2011-12 University Proctor
- 2012- Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology
- 2012- Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke College
- 2013-2020 Professor of Psychology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg.
Rogers, B.J. (2022) “When is an illusion not an illusion? An alternative view of the illusion concept”. Frontiers of Human Neuroscience, Section: Cognitive Neuroscience
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.957740
Rogers, B.J. (2021) “Optic Flow: Perceiving and Acting in a 3-D World”. i-Perception 10(4), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669520987257
Rogers, B.J., Anstis, S.M., Ashida, H. And Kitaoka A. (2019) “Reversed Phi and the “Phenomenal Phenomena” Revisited”. i-Perception 10(4), 1-22. doi: 10.1177/2041669519856906
Rogers, B.J. (2019) “Where have all the illusions gone?” Perception 48(3). doi: 10.1177/0301006619828117.
Rogers, B. J. (2019) “Toward a new theory of stereopsis: A critique of Vishwanath (2014)” Psychological Review 126(1), 162-169. doi.org/10.1037/rev0000131.
Rogers, B. J. (2017) Perception - A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP. ISBN 978-0-19-879100-3
Rogers, B. J, and Anstis, S. (2017) The New Moon Illusion Chapter 31 In A. Shapiro and D. Todorovic (eds), The Compendium of Visual Illusions. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199794607
Howard, I.P. and Rogers B.J. (2012) “Perceiving in Depth” Volume 2 – “Stereoscopic Vision”, Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-508476-4
Professor Brian Rogers
I started my academic career as an undergraduate student in Physics and Mathematics but, within a year, I became enticed by the much newer and exciting subject of Psychology. After graduating, I completed a doctoral dissertation on visual perception at Bristol University before moving to St Andrews and my first academic position as a Lecturer and subsequently as a Reader in Psychology. In 1984, I moved to Oxford and was appointed to a Lectureship and Fellowship, where I have been ever since.
As an experimental psychologist, my research interests are in all aspects of human visual perception but specifically in the perception of the 3-D world. There are many sources of information about the 3-D world but two of the most important are binocular stereopsis (using two eyes) and motion parallax (as a consequence of our movements). Our research has shown that human observers are able to use both the small differences or disparities between the images reaching the two eyes and the patterns of relative motion generated as we move around to identify and discriminate the fine details of object structure and layout.
I am also interested in the long-standing philosophical debate between those who see perception as a process of inference and guessing based on sparse information and those who believe that the available information about the world is rich and only needs to be “picked up”. My own view is that perception is better understood as an evolved process that allows us to extract the affordances (meanings) of the world rather than a process for identifying images and objects.
Discovering how humans and other animals perceive the world has important implications for the design and construction of machine vision systems, robotics and the development of display technologies for 3-D TV and cinema. To this end, we have an active collaboration with the Department of Engineering Science in Oxford as well as with many other universities around the world.
- B.Sc. Psychology, 1969, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
- Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, 1976, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
- M.A. 1984, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- 1969-70 Research Assistant in Psychology, University of Bristol
- 1970-72 Postgraduate Student, University of Bristol
- 1972-73 Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, York University, Canada
- 1973-84 Lecturer in Psychology, University of St Andrews, Scotland
- 1984-96 Lecturer in Psychology, University of Oxford
- 1984-98 Fellow and Tutor in Psychology, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
- 1996-2012 Professor of Experimental Psychology
- 2001-2012 Fellow and Tutor in Psychology, Pembroke College
- 2011-12 University Proctor
- 2012- Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology
- 2012- Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke College
- 2013-2020 Professor of Psychology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg.
Rogers, B.J. (2022) “When is an illusion not an illusion? An alternative view of the illusion concept”. Frontiers of Human Neuroscience, Section: Cognitive Neuroscience
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.957740
Rogers, B.J. (2021) “Optic Flow: Perceiving and Acting in a 3-D World”. i-Perception 10(4), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669520987257
Rogers, B.J., Anstis, S.M., Ashida, H. And Kitaoka A. (2019) “Reversed Phi and the “Phenomenal Phenomena” Revisited”. i-Perception 10(4), 1-22. doi: 10.1177/2041669519856906
Rogers, B.J. (2019) “Where have all the illusions gone?” Perception 48(3). doi: 10.1177/0301006619828117.
Rogers, B. J. (2019) “Toward a new theory of stereopsis: A critique of Vishwanath (2014)” Psychological Review 126(1), 162-169. doi.org/10.1037/rev0000131.
Rogers, B. J. (2017) Perception - A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP. ISBN 978-0-19-879100-3
Rogers, B. J, and Anstis, S. (2017) The New Moon Illusion Chapter 31 In A. Shapiro and D. Todorovic (eds), The Compendium of Visual Illusions. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199794607
Howard, I.P. and Rogers B.J. (2012) “Perceiving in Depth” Volume 2 – “Stereoscopic Vision”, Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-508476-4