Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

  1. Bae, G.-Y., Olkkonen, M. , Allred, S. R., & Flombaum, J. I. (2015). Why some colors appear more memorable than others: A model combining categories and particulars in color working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. Link to article PDF Press release
  2. Allred S. R., & Olkkonen, M. (2015). The effect of memory and context changes on color matches to real objects. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. Advance online publication. Link to article PDF
  3. Olkkonen, M., McCarthy, P., & Allred, S. R. (2014). The central tendency bias in color perception: Effects of internal and external noise. Journal of Vision, 14(11):5, 1-15. Link to article
  4. Bae, G.-Y., Olkkonen, M., Allred, S. R., Wilson, C., & Flombaum, J. I. (2014). Stimulus-specific variability in color working memory with delayed estimation. Journal of Vision,14(4):7, 1-23. Link to article
  5. Olkkonen, M., & Allred, S. R. (2014). Short-term memory affects color perception in context. PloS ONE, 9(1):e8648, 1-11. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086488. Link to article

  6. Allred, S. R., & Olkkonen, M. (2013) The effect of background and illumination on color appearance of real, 3D objects. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:821, 1-14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00821 Link to article

  7. Olkkonen, M., Brainard, D. H. (2011). Joint effects of illumination geometry and object shape in the perception of surface reflectance i-Perception, 2(9), 1014-1034. Link to article
  8. Olkkonen, M., & Brainard, D. H. (2010). Perceived surface glossiness and lightness under real-world illumination. Journal of vision, 10(9):5, 1-19. Special issue: Perception of surface color and material properties. Link to article
  9. Olkkonen, M., Witzel, C., Hansen, T., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2010). Categorical color constancy for real surfaces. Journal of vision, 10(9):16, 1-22. Special issue: Perception of surface color and material properties. Link to article
  10. Olkkonen, M., Hansen, T., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2009). Categorical color constancy for simulated surfaces. Journal of Vision, 9(12):6, 1-18. Link to article
  11. Olkkonen, M., Hansen, T., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2008). Colour appearance of familiar objects: Effects of object shape, texture and illumination changes. Journal of Vision, 8 , 1-16. Link to article
  12. Hansen, T., Olkkonen, M., Walter, S. & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2006). Memory modulates color appearance. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 1367-1368. PDF   Supplementary material
  13. Olkkonen, M. & Mustonen, T. (2005). Estimating text legibility of a mobile display on the basis of translational vibration caused by walking. Journal of the Society for Information Display, 13, 657-663. PDF

    14. Book chapters

    Olkkonen, M., Hansen, T., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2012). High-level perceptual influences on color appearance. In Visual Experience: Sensation, Cognition and Constancy. G. Hatfield & S. R. Allred (Eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press., pp.178-198.

    Olkkonen, M., Ekroll, V. E. (2015). Color constancy and contextual effects on color appearance. Forthcoming in the Springer Series in Vision Research, Human Colour Vision. J. Kremers, R baraas, & J. Marshal (Eds).

    Witzel, C. & Olkkonen, M. Memory colour. (Invited review for Scholarpedia, In preparation.)

    Manuscripts*

    Olkkonen, M., Saarela, T. P., & Allred, S. R. Probabilistic estimation of surface lightness. In review.

    Olkkonen, M., Aguirre, G. K., & Epstein, R. A. Effects of expectation on fMRI adaptation in parametric face space. In preparation.

    mattar, M. G. M, Olkkonen, M., Aguirre, G. K., & Epstein, R. A. Adaptation sharpens shape representations. In preparation.

    Saarela, T. P, Mattar, M. G., & Olkkonen, M. ShapeToolbox: Generating parametric 3D shapes for visual perception and cognition experiments. In preparation.

    *Preprints are available upon request.

    Conference proceedings

    Vuori, T., & Olkkonen, M. (2006). The effect of image sharpness on quantitative eye-movement data and on image quality evaluation while viewing natural images. Electronic Imaging 2006, Image Quality and System Performance III, 6059. San Jose, California,USA. PDF

    Mustonen, T. Olkkonen, M. & Häkkinen, J. (2004) Examining mobile phone text legibility while walking. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2004, 2, p.1243-1246. New York: ACM Press. PDF

    Vuori, T., Olkkonen, M., Pölönen, M., Siren, A., & Häkkinen, J. (2004). Can eye movements be quantitatively applied to image quality studies? NordiCHI2004, Proceedings of the Third Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 335-338, Tampere, Finland.

    Conference abstracts

    Olkkonen, M. & Allred, S. R. (2013). Effects of short-term memory on perceived hue. Journal of Vision, 13(9): 465. doi:10.1167/13.9.465. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/13/9/465/

    Olkkonen, M. & Allred, S. R. (2012). Relationship between constancy and memory for stimulus hue and lightness. Perception, 41s, 45. Slide presentation at F1000

    Olkkonen, M. & Allred, S. R. (2012). Bias and precision in the perception and memory for stimulus lightness [Abstract] Journal of vision, 12(9):1209. http://journalofvision.org/12/9/1209/.

    Olkkonen, M. & Brainard, D.H. (2011). Shape modulates the effect of lightfield on perceived glossiness [Abstract] Journal of vision, 11(11):398. http://journalofvision.org/11/11/398/.

    Olkkonen, M. & Brainard, D.H. (2010). Interaction of diffuse and specular reflectance in the perception of object lightness and glossiness. [Abstract] Journal of vision, 10(7):389. http://journalofvision.org/10/7/389/.

    Olkkonen, M. & Brainard, D.H. (2009). Perception of lightness and glossiness under natural lightfields. Poster presented at the OSA Fall Vision Meeting, 24th-27th September 2009, Seattle, WA.

    Olkkonen, M., Oliver, R., Hansen, T., Gegenfurtner, K. R. & Brainard, D.H. (2008). Investigating color constancy for natural objects. Poster presented at the Workshop on Perception of material properties in 3D scenes at the University of Pensylvania, 10/17--10/19/2008.

    Olkkonen, M., Hansen, T. & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2008).The structure of color space is largely invariant under illuminant changes [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 8, 574, 574a, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/574/.

    Olkkonen, M., Hansen, T. & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2008). Memory color effects on color appearance under varying illumination. [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 7(9):460, 460a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/460/.

    Olkkonen, M., Hansen, T. & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2007). Memory color effects on color appearance under varying illumination. [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 7(9):460, 460a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/460/.

    Olkkonen, M., Hansen, T. & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2006). Investigating memory colours of natural objects: A new method of chromatic adjustment. Perception, 35s, 194.

    Olkkonen, M., Hansen, T. & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2006). Color constancy for natural objects using polar chromatic adjustment. Poster presented at the 9th Tübingen Wahrnehmungskonferenz, 3.-5.3.2006.

    Olkkonen, M. & Mustonen, T. (2004) Walking-caused vibration and small display legibility. Proceedings of the 2004 International Display Workshops.

    Olkkonen, K.M., Saarela, T.P., Peromaa, T.L. & Laurinen, P.I (2002). Effects of chromatic contrast on brightness perception. Perception, 31s, 184-185.