Prof. Patrick Green BA(Hons), PhD

 I teach in the areas of sensory processes, visual perception, comparative psychology and psychobiology. I am Psychology Discipline Director, and Director of the Applied Psychology MSc programme.

My research interests are in two main areas:

• The perception of surface textures, including visual classification of textured surfaces, judgement of surface properties, and visual search in textured surfaces. This research has been in collaboration with the Heriot-Watt Texture Lab.
• How animal camouflage patterns protect against detection by predators, and the effects of the light environment and background motion on camouflage.

• Clarke, A.D.F., Green, P.R., & Chantler, M. (2012). The effects of display time and eccentricity on the detection of amplitude and phase degradations in textured stimuli. Journal of Vision, 12(3):7, 1-11.
• Clarke, A.D.F., Green, P.R., Halley, F. & Chantler, M. (2011). Similar symmetries: The role of wallpaper groups in perceptual texture similarity. Symmetry, 3, 246-264.
• Emrith, K., Chantler, M.J., Green, P.R. Maloney, L T. & Clarke, A.D.F. (2010) Measuring perceived differences in surface texture due to changes in higher order statistics. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 27, 1232-1244.
• Clarke, A.D.F., Chantler, M. & Green, P.R. (2009) Modelling visual search on a rough surface. Journal of Vision, 9(4):11, 1-12.
• Clarke, A.D.F., Green, P.R., Emrith, K. & Chantler, M. (2008). Visual search for a target against a 1/ƒ^ß continuous textured background. Vision Research, 48, 2193-2203.
• Padilla, S., Drbohlav, O., Green, P.R., Spence, A. & Chantler, M.J. (2008). Perceived roughness of 1/ƒ^ß  noise surfaces. Vision Research, 48, 1791-1797.

My first degree was a BA in Zoology from the University of Oxford, followed by a PhD in Animal Behaviour from the University of Cambridge. I joined the Psychology Department at the University of Nottingham in 1978, and then moved to Heriot-Watt in 1997 as a Senior Lecturer and then Professor.