Dr Valérie Bonnardel

Reader in Experimental Psychology

Humanities and Social Sciences

Email:

Valerie.Bonnardel@winchester.ac.uk

Phone:

+44 (0)1962 827151

Fax:

+44 (0)1962 827437

Address:

The University of Winchester
Sparkford Road
Winchester
Hampshire SO22 4NR

Biography

M.A. Experimental and Biological Psychology (Paris V, France)
PhD Neurosciences (Paris VI, France)
Post-Doctoral position (Cambridge, UK)

Dr Bonnardel holds an Asian Paints Colour Research Chair at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India, 2011 - 2012, to establish research activities on colour perception, relevant to design studies.

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate

Exploring Psychology
Laboratory Psychology
Abnormal Psychology
Psychobiology (Module Leader)
Cognitive Psychology
Conducting Independent Psychology Research
Research Project: Empirical (Module Leader)
Advance Statistics and Applied Statistics
Topics in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology (Module Leader)

Postgraduate

Cognitive Sciences (Module Leader)
Quantitative Research Methods
Research in Practice

Expertise

Human colour vision

Publications

Bachy, R. Dias, J. Alleysson, D. & Bonnardel, V. (2012). Colour discrimination, unique hues and naming. Journal of Optical Society of America, 29, A60-A68.

Bachy, R. Dias, J. Alleysson, D. & Bonnardel, V. (2010). Hue discrimination to spectrally modulated lights. Perception, 33, 85c.

Bonnardel, V. (2010). Daltonisme et thérapie génique. La revue d'Optométrie (Ed. Optocom), 33, 26 -31.

Bonnardel, V. Oakes, M. & Tait, J. (2009). Special Corner : Visual Categorisation and Image Mangement Systems. Cognitive Processing, 10, 209-210.

Bonnardel, V. (2008). Book review: 'Des yeux pour peindre' Philippe Lanthony. La revue d’Optométrie (Ed. Optocom), 24, 34-35.

Bonnardel, V. Flintham, J. & van Leeuwen, C. (2007). Study of colour categorical perception with equal discriminability stimuli. Perception, 36, 190a.

Bonnardel, V. & Flintham, J. (2007). Discrimination of emulated Munsell colour samples. CIE x032: Proceedings of the CIE Expert Symposium on Visual Appearance, Paris, France, 140-146.

Bonnardel, V. (2006a). Catégorisation et démonomination des couleurs chez des sujets daltoniens. La Revue d’Optométrie (Ed. Optocom), 19, 28 – 35.

Bonnardel, V. (2006b). Colour naming and categorisation in inherited colour vision deficiencies. Visual Neuroscience, 26, 637-643.

Bonnardel, V. & Herrero, J. (2006). Memory for colours : a reaction time experiment. Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging, and Vision, 110-115, Leeds, UK.

Bonnardel, V. & Pitchford, N. J. (2006). Colour categorisation in preschoolers. Progress in Colour Studies, Vol II: Psychological aspects. Amesterdam: John Benjamins Ltd.

Bonnardel, V. & Varela, F. (2003). Colour vision in the comb-Frequency domain. Biological Research, 36, 119–134.

Bonnardel, V. & Valero, E. M. (2001). Study of colour discrimination with comb-filtered spectra. Vision Research, 41, 541–548.

Bonnardel, V. & Maloney, L. T. (2000). Surface spectral reflectances and human chromatic response in the Fourier domain. Journal of Optical Society of America A.,17, 677-686.

Bonnardel, V. Ruderman, D. L. & Barlow, H. B. (1997). Fast determination of the Spectral Modulation Sensitivity Function : A comparison between trichromats and deuteranopes. In: C. R. Cavonius (ed.) Colour Vision Deficiencies XIII, 415-424.

Bonnardel, V. Bellemare, H. & Mollon, J. D. (1996). Measurements of human sensitivity to comb-filtered spectra. Vision Research, 36, 2713-2720.

Bonnardel, V. & Varela, F. J. (1991). A frequency view of color : Measuring the human sensitivity to square-wave spectral power distributions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 271, 165-171.

Conference presentations

Bonnardel, V. Bachy, R., Dias, J. & Alleysson, D. (2011). Hue discrimination and naming. 21st Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society, 1-5/07 Kongsberg, Norway.

Bonnardel, V. & Lanning L. (2010). Gender differences in colour preference: personality and gender schemata factors. 2nd CIE Expert Symposium on Appearance. 8-10 September 2010, Ghent, Belgium.

Research Interests

My research interest broadly concerns human colour vision from sensation to perception. A first line of research concerns the study of human sensitivity to comb-filtered spectra. These stimuli can be considered as models of natural colour signals and allow a direct determination of detection and discrimination performances without prior knowledge of the colour mechanisms sensitivity.

In parallel, my investigation also focusses on higher processing levels of colour perception, such as colour categorization, colour memory, colour naming and colour preference. By combining psychophysic and experimental psychology approaches, the objective is to gain a better understanding of how individual differences at sensory level are reflected at perceptive and cognitive levels.