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Boots B, Nundy S, Purves D (2006) Evolution of visually-guided behavior in artificial agents. Network: Computation in Neural Systems (submitted).
Howe CQ, Lotto RB, Purves D (2006) Comparison of Bayesian and empirical ranking approaches to visual perception. J Theoretical Biol 241: 866-875.

Long F, Yang Z, Purves D (2006) Spectral statistics in natural scenes predict hue, saturation, and brightness. Proc Natl Acad Sci 102: 6013-6018.

Andrews TJ, Purves D (2005) The Wagon Wheel illusion in continuous light. Trends in Cog Neurosci 9: 261-263.

Howe CQ, Purves D (2005) Natural scene geometry predicts the perception of angles and line orientation. Proc Natl Acad Sci 102: 1228-1233.

Howe CQ, Purves D (2005) The Müller-Lyer illusion explained by the statistics of image-source relationships. Proc Natl Acad Sci 102: 1234-1239.
Purves D, Howe CQ (2005) Perceiving Geometry: Geometrical Illusions Explained by Natural Scene Statistics. Springer: New York, NY.
Yang Z, Purves D (2005) The Poggendorf illusion explained by natural scene geometry. Proc Natl Acad Sci 102: 7707-7712.

Howe CQ, Purves D (2004) Size contrast and assimilation explained by the statistics of scene geometry. J Cog Neurosci 16(1): 90-102.
Lotto RB, Purves D (2004) Perceiving color. Rev Prog Coloration 34: 12-25.
Purves D, Williams MS, Nundy S, Lotto RB (2004) Perceiving the intensity of light. Psychological Rev 111: 142-158.
Schwartz D, Purves D (2004) Pitch is determined by naturally occurring periodic sounds. Hearing Research 194: 31-46.

Yang Z, Purves D (2004) The statistical structure of natural light patterns determines perceived light intensity. Proc Natl Acad Sci 101: 8745-8750

Long F, Purves D (2003) Natural scene statistics as the universal basis for color context effects. Proc Natl Acad Sci 100 (25): 15190-15193.

Schwartz DA, Howe CQ, Purves D (2003) The statistical structure of human speech sounds predicts musical universals. J Neurosci 23: 7160-7168.

Yang Z, Purves D (2003) A statistical explanation of visual space. Nature Neurosci 6: 632 - 640.

Yang Z, Purves D (2003) Image/source statistics of surfaces in natural scenes. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 14: 371-390.

Howe CQ, Purves D (2002) Range image statistics can explain the anomalous perception of length. Proc Natl Acad Sci 99: 13184-13188.

Lotto RB, Purves D (2002) A rationale for the structure of color space. Trends Neur 2:84-88.

Lotto RB, Purves D (2002) The empirical basis of color perception. Consciousness and Cognition 11:609-629.

Nundy S, Purves D (2002) A probabilistic explanation of brightness scaling. Proc Natl Acad Sci 99: 14482-14487.
Purves D, Lotto RB (2002) Why we see what we do: An empirical theory of vision. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.

Yang Z, Shimpi A, Purves D (2002) Perception of objects that are translating and rotating. Perception 31(8): 925-942.

Lotto RB, Purves D (2001) An empirical explanation of the Chubb Illusion. J Cog Neurosc 13: 547-555.

Purves D, Lotto RB, Williams SM, Nundy S, Yang, Z (2001) Why we see things the way we do: Evidence for a wholly empirical strategy of vision. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B, 356:285-297.

Yang Z, Shimpi A, Purves D (2001) A wholly empirical explanation of perceived motion. Proc Natl Acad Sci 9: 5252-5257.

Lotto, RB, Purves D (2000). An empirical explanation of color contrast. Proc Natl Acad Sci 97: 12834-12839.

Nundy S, Lotto B, Coppola D, Shimpi A, Purves D. (2000) Why are angles misperceived? Proc Natl Acad Sci. 97: 5592-5597.

Purves D, Lotto B, Polger T (2000) Color vision and the four-color-map problem. J Cog Neurosci 12: 233-237.