Anderson, Roger Professor
Professor, Head of Vision Science Research Group

Academic and Professional Qualifications
1986: BSc (Hons) Optometry, University of Wales, Cardiff. 1987: MCOptom, College of Optometrists. 1990: MPhil, Vision Science, University of Wales, Cardiff. 1994: PhD, Vision Science, School of Optometry, Indiana University, USA.
Career History
2000 - present: Professor and Head of Vision Science Research Group, University of Ulster, Coleraine.
1995 - 2000: Senior Lecturer in Optometry, University of Ulster, Coleraine. 1994 - 1995: Research Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Edinburgh. 1987 - 1994: Research Optometrist, Bristol Eye Hospital, Bristol. 1986 - 1987: Pre-registration Optometrist, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London.
Anderson, Roger Professor
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Professor Roger Anderson |
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Email: rs.anderson@ulster.ac.uk
Anderson, Roger Professor - Publications
Redmond, T, Anderson, RS, Russell, RA and Garway-Heath, DF (2013) Relating Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness and Functional Estimates of Ganglion Cell Sampling Density in Healthy Eyes and in Early Glaucoma. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 54 (3). pp. 2153-2162.
Redmond, Tony, Zlatkova, Margarita, Vassilev, Angel, Garway-Heath , David and Anderson, Roger (2013) Changes in Ricco's Area with Background Luminance in the S-Cone Pathway. Optometry and Visual Science, 90 (1). pp. 66-74.
Demirel, S, Anderson, Roger, Dakin, SC and Thibos, LN (2012) Detection and Resolution of Vanishing Optotype Letters in Central and Peripheral Vision. . Vision Research, 59. pp. 9-16.
Bergin, C, Redmond, T, Nathwani, N, Verdon-Roe, GM, Crabb, DP, Anderson, Roger and Garway-Heath, DF (2011) The effect of induced intraocular stray light on perimetric tests. . Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 52 (6). pp. 3676-3682.
Shah, N, Dakin, SC, Redmond, T and Anderson, Roger (2011) Vanishing Optotype Letter Acuity: repeatability and Effect of the Number of Alternatives. . Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 31. pp. 17-22.
Turpin, Alan, Morrow, Philip, Scotney, Bryan, Anderson, Roger and Wolsley, Clive (2011) Automated Identification of Photoreceptor Cones Using Multi-scale Modelling and Normalized Cross-Correlation. In: Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2011. Springer. Vol 6978 494-503
Turpin, Alan, Morrow, PJ, Scotney, BW, Anderson, RS and Wolsley, C (2011) Identification of Retinal Cones Using 3-D Modeling and Normalized Cross Correlation. In: 14th International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference: IMVIP 2010. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 59-74
Redmond, T, Zlatkova, MB, Garway-Heath , DF and Anderson, Roger (2010) The effect of age on the area of complete spatial summation for chromatic and achromatic stimuli.. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 51. pp. 6533-6539.
Redmond, T, Garway-Heath , DF, Zlatkova, MB and Anderson, Roger (2010) Sensitivity loss in early glaucoma can be mapped to an enlargement of the area of complete spatial summation.. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 51. pp. 6540-6548.
Wolsley, Clive, Saunders, Kathryn, Silvestri, Guiliani and Anderson, Roger (2010) Comparing mfERGs with Estimates of Cone Density from in vivo Imaging of the Photoreceptor Mosaic using a Modified Heidelberg Retina Tomograph.. Vision Research, 50 (15). pp. 1462-1468.
Anderson, Roger, Redmond, T, McDowell , DR, Breslin, Karen and Zlatkova, MB (2009) The robustness of various forms of perimetry to different levels of induced intraocular stray light.. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 50 (8). pp. 4022-4028.
Vassilev, Angel, Murzac, Adrian, Zlatkova, Margarita and Anderson, Roger (2009) On the search for an appropriate metric for reaction time to suprathreshold increments and decrements. VISION RESEARCH, 49 (5). pp. 524-529.
Wolsley, C J, Silvestri, G, O'Neill, J, Saunders, Kathryn and Anderson, Roger (2009) The association between multifocal electroretinograms and OCT retinal thickness in retinitis pigmentosa patients with good visual acuity.. Eye (London, England), 23 (7). pp. 1524-31.
Beirne, Raymond, Zlatkova, Margarita, Chang, Chin-Kuo, Chakravarthy, Usha and Anderson, Roger (2008) How does the short-wavelength-sensitive contrast sensitivity function for detection and resolution change with age in the periphery?. VISION RESEARCH, 48 (18). pp. 1894-1901.
Zlatkova, Margarita, Vassilev, Angel and Anderson, Roger (2008) Resolution acuity for equiluminant gratings of S-cone positive or negative contrast in human vision. JOURNAL OF VISION, 8 (3). pp. 9.
Wolsley, Clive J, Saunders, Kathryn, Silvestri, Giuliana and Anderson, Roger (2008) Investigation of changes in the myopic retina using multifocal electroretinograms, optical coherence tomography and peripheral resolution acuity.. Vision research, 48 (14). pp. 1554-61.
Beirne, Raymond, Hogg, Ruth, Stevenson, Michael, Anderson, Roger and Chakravarthy, Usha (2008) Visual function, age-related maculopathy stage and the subsequent development of age-related macular degeneration. . In: . . Vol 49 (5), 2223-2301
Hogg, R. E., Zlatkova, Margarita, Chakravarthy, U. and Anderson, Roger (2007) Investigation of the effect of simulated lens yellowing, transparency loss and refractive error on in vivo resonance Raman spectroscopy. OPHTHALMIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS, 27 (3). pp. 225-231.
Hogg, Ruth E., Stevenson, Michael R., Chakravarthy, Usha, Beirne, Raymond and Anderson, Roger (2007) Early features of AMD. OPHTHALMOLOGY, 114 (5). pp. 1027-1028.
Hogg, R. E., Anderson, Roger, Stevenson, M. R., Zlatkova, Margarita and Chakravarthy, U. (2007) In vivo macular pigment measurements: a comparison of resonance Raman spectroscopy and heterochromatic flicker photometry. BRITISH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, 91 (4). pp. 485-490.
Beirne, Raymond, Hogg, Ruth E., Stevenson, Michael R., Vidinova, Margarita, Chakravarthy, Usha and Anderson, Roger (2006) Severity staging by early features of age-related maculopathy exhibits weak relationships with functional deficits on SWS grating acuity. INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, 47 (10). pp. 4624-4631.
Zlatkova, Margarita, Coulter, EE and Anderson, Roger (2006) The effect of simulated lens yellowing and opacification on blue-on-yellow acuity and contrast sensitivity. VISION RESEARCH, 46 (15). pp. 2432-2442.
Redmond, T., Zlatkova, Margarita, Garway-Heath, D. F., Vassilev, A. and Anderson, Roger (2006) Spatial summation for chromatic stimuli with changes in adaptation level. PERCEPTION, 35 (Suppl. S). pp. 193.
Beirne, Raymond, Vidinova, Margarita and Anderson, Roger (2005) Changes in human short-wavelength-sensitive and achromatic resolution acuity with retinal eccentricity and meridian. VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE, 22 (1). pp. 79-86.
Vassilev, A, Ivanov, I, Zlatkova, Margarita and Anderson, Roger (2005) Human S-cone vision: Relationship between perceptive field and ganglion cell dendritic field. JOURNAL OF VISION, 5 (10). pp. 823-833.
Anderson, Roger and Vidinova-Zlatkova, Margarita (2005) Binocular summation for detection and resolution of blue-yellow gratings in foveal and peripheral vision. INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, 46 (Suppl. S). pp. 4566-4566.
Vivekananda-Schmidt, P, Anderson, RS, Reinhardt-Rutland, Anthony and Shields, TJ (2004) Simulated impairment of contrast sensitivity: Performance and gaze behavior during locomotion through a built environment. OPTOMETRY AND VISION SCIENCE, 81 (11). pp. 844-852.
Anderson, RS, Hogg, RE and Zlatkova, MB (2004) Investigation of simulated lens yellowing, opacification and refractive error on Resonance Raman Spectroscopy. INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, 45 (Suppl. 1). pp. 2509.
Ivanov, I, Vassilev, A, Vidinova, Margarita and Anderson, RS (2004) Spatial summation of S-cone-selective isoluminant stimuli. PERCEPTION, 33 (Suppl. S). pp. 57-58.
Vassilev, A, Mihaylova, MS, Racheva, K, Zlatkova, M and Anderson, Roger (2003) Spatial summation of S-cone ON and OFF signals: Effects of retinal eccentricity. VISION RESEARCH, 43 (27). pp. 2875-2884.
Beirne, Raymond, Logan, JFJ, Vidinova, Margarita, Jackson, AJ, Rankin, SJA, Demirel, S and Anderson, Roger (2003) Peripheral resolution for achromatic and SWS gratings in early to moderate glaucoma and the implications for selective ganglion cell density loss. INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, 44 (11). pp. 4780-4786.
Beirne, Raymond, Logan, JF, Zlatkova, Margarita, Jackson, AJ, Rankin, SJ, Demirel, S and Anderson, Roger (2003) Peripheral resolution for achromatic and SWS gratings in early to moderate glaucoma and the implications for selective ganglion cell density loss.. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 44 (11). pp. 4780-4786.
Vassilev, A, Anderson, Roger and ZLATKOVA, M (2003) [Invariants of spatial summation for S (short wavelength) cone vision].. Ross Fiziol Zh Im I M Sechenova, 89 (10). pp. 1250-1257.
Anderson, Roger, Coulter, E, Zlatkova, MB and Demirel, S (2003) Short-wavelength acuity: optical factors affecting detection and resolution of blue-yellow sinusoidal gratings in foveal and peripheral vision. VISION RESEARCH, 43 (1). pp. 101-107.
Zlatkova, Margarita, Coulter, E and Anderson, Roger (2003) Short-wavelength acuity: blue-yellow and achromatic resolution loss with age. VISION RESEARCH, 43 (1). pp. 109-115.
Vassilev, AG, Zlatkova, Margarita, Mihaylova, M, Racheva, K and Anderson, Roger (2003) Comparison of spatial integration of S-cone-selective luminance increments and decrements with retinal structure. PERCEPTION, 32 (Suppl. S). pp. 39.
Anderson, Roger, Vidinova, Margarita and Beirne, Raymond (2002) The contrast sensitivity function for detection and resolution of blue-on-yellow gratings in foveal and peripheral vision. OPHTHALMIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS, 22 (5). pp. 420-426.
Anderson, Roger, Zlatkova, MB and Demirel, S (2002) What limits detection and resolution of short-wavelength sinusoidal gratings across the retina?. VISION RESEARCH, 42 (8). pp. 981-990.
Zlatkova, Margarita, Anderson, Roger and Beirne, Raymond (2002) The effect of number of cycles on detection of S-cone isolating gratings in central and peripheral vision. PERCEPTION, 31 (Suppl. S). pp. 69.
Zlatkova, Margarita, Anderson, Roger and Ennis, FA (2001) Binocular summation for grating detection and resolution in foveal and peripheral vision. VISION RESEARCH, 41 (24). pp. 3093-3100.
Vassilev, A. G., Zlatkova, Margarita and Anderson, Roger (2001) Blue-on-yellow increment and decrement sensitivity: effects of stimulus size and retinal eccentricity. PERCEPTION, 30 (Suppl. S). pp. 17-18.
Vidinova, Margarita, Anderson, Roger and Coulter, E. (2001) The effect of age and optical defocus on the acuity of the SWS-cone pathway. PERCEPTION, 30 (Suppl. S). pp. 84.
Anderson, Roger, Vidinova, Margarita and Demirel, S. (2001) Noninvasive estimation of SWS-driven ganglion cell density across the visual field. PERCEPTION, 30 (Suppl. S). pp. 85.


