John Mollon

Professor John Mollon is the Professor of Visual Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow and Lecturer in Psychology at Gonville and Caius College. His work focuses on color vision, neural circuitry, and visual perception, with a particular emphasis on primate evolution and optics history. He has contributed significantly to understanding color deficiencies, retinal genetics, and the neural mechanisms underlying visual processing.

• Affiliations: Department of Psychology (University of Cambridge), Gonville and Caius College
• Research Interests: Color vision evolution, psychophysics of color discrimination, genetic basis of visual anomalies, and clinical applications of color perception research.

His research spans over five decades, including seminal studies on primate color vision evolution, the genetic basis of color blindness, and the development of diagnostic tools like the Cambridge Colour Test. Recent work explores neural coding in cortical networks and the impact of genetic variation on visual performance.

Key contributions include analyzing the spectral sensitivity of primate retinas, investigating tetrachromacy, and linking genetic markers to visual disorders. His articles frequently bridge evolutionary biology, clinical ophthalmology, and cognitive neuroscience.