Newcastle University

Research Interests

My research explores human mate selection and the perception of physical attractiveness in an evolutionary psychology context. One of the most fundamental problems for any organism is mate selection. It is vitally important that we are sensitive to the physical cues that honestly signal that one individual is more desirable (i.e. fitter and with a better reproductive potential) than another, and use them to choose the partner who is most likely to enhance our chances of successful reproduction. My research has focussed on the visual cues on which these judgements are based, and how environment and context may alter these judgements.

This research also focuses on the problem of body image dysfunction in Eating Disordered subjects. This is a key diagnostic feature in both Anorexic and Bulimic subjects, and plays an important role in the aetiology and maintenance of these conditions.

Current Postgraduate Supervision

PhD students

Kara Crossley

Lucinda Gledhill

Sandra Fernandes-Machado

Masters Students

Josephine Mo

Former Postgraduate Students

Former PhD Students

Fran Cormack, Joanne Emery, Hannah George, Huw Golledge, Alistair Gray, Katie Green, Doug Maisey, Sue Mason, Katy Smith, Nicki Turnill & Matt Walker

Former Masters Students 

Andrew Ply, Danielle McCutcheon, Camilla Munton, Nagamani Pathakota & Katy Smith

• Mo JJY, Cheung K, Gledhill LJ, Pollet TV, Boothroyd LG, Tovee MJ. Perceptions of female body size and shape in China, Hong Kong and the UK. Cross-Cultural Research 2013. In Press.
• Swami V, Harris AS, Tovée MJ. An examination of ethnic differences in actual-ideal weight discrepancy and its correlates in a sample of Malaysian women. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health 2013, (epub ahead of print).
• Swami V, Tovee MJ. Men's Oppresive Beliefs Predict Their Breast Size Preferences in Women. Archives of Sexual Behavior 2013, (epub ahead of print).
• Cornelissen PL, Johns A, Tovee MJ. Body size over-estimation in women with anorexia nervosa is not qualitatively different from female controls. Body Image 2013, 10(1), 103-111.
• Swami V, Tovee MJ. Resource Security Impacts Men’s Female Breast Size Preferences. PLoS one 2013, 8(3), e57623.
• Evans EL, Tovee MJ, Boothroyd LG, Drewett RF. Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitudes in 7- to 11-year old girls: testing a sociocultural model. Body Image 2013, 10(1), 8-15.
• Crossley KL, Cornelissen PL, Tovée MJ. What is an Attractive Body? Using an Interactive 3D Program to Create the Ideal Body for You and Your Partner. PLoS One 2012, 7(11), e50601.
• Boothroyd LG, Tovee MJ, Pollet TV. Visual Diet versus Associative Learning as Mechanisms of Change in Body Size Preferences. PLoS One 2012, 7(11), e48691.
• Swami V, Tovee MJ. The Impact of Psychological Stress on Men’s Judgements of Female Body Size. PLoS One 2012, 7(8), e42593.
• Swami V, Mada R, Tovée MJ. Weight discrepancy and body appreciation of Zimbabwean women in Zimbabwe and Britain. Body Image 2012, 9(4), 559-662.
• Tovee MJ, Edmonds L, Vuong QC. Categorical perception of human female physical attractiveness and health. Evolution and Human Behavior 2012, 33(2), 85-93.
• Swami V, Stieger S, Pietschnig J, Voracek M, Furnham A, Tovée MJ. The influence of facial piercings and observer personality on perceptions of physical attractiveness and intelligence. European Psychologist 2012, 17(3), 213-221.
• Tovee MJ. Anthropometry. In: Cash, T.F, ed. Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance. San Diego: Academic Press, 2012, pp.23-29.
• Swami V, Stieger S, Harris AS, Nader IW, Pietschnig J, Voracek M, Tovée MJ. Further investigation of the validity and reliability of the Photographic Figure Rating Scale for body image assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment 2012, 94(4), 404-409.
• Swami V, Henderson G, Custance D, Tovee MJ. A cross-cultural investigation of men's judgements of female body weight in Britain and Indonesia. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2011, 42(1), 140-145.
• Holliday IE, Longe OA, Thai NJ, Hancock PJB, Tovee MJ. BMI not WHR Modulates BOLD fMRI Responses in a Sub-Cortical Reward Network When Participants Judge the Attractiveness of Human Female Bodies. PLoS One 2011, 6(11), e27255.
• George HR, Cornelissen PL, Hancock PJ, Kiviniemi VV, Tovee MJ. Differences in eye-movement patterns between Anorexic and control observers when judging body size and attractiveness. British Journal of Psychology 2011, 102, 340-354.
• Vedhara K, Brant H, Adamopoulos E, Byrne-Davis L, Mackintosh B, Hoppitt L, Tovee M, Miles J, Pennebaker JW. A preliminary investigation into whether attentional bias influences mood outcomes following emotional disclosure. International Journal of Behavioural Medicine 2010, 17(3), 195-206.
• Swami V, Pietschnig J, Stieger S, Tovee MJ, Voracek M. An investigation of weight bias against women and its associations with individual difference factors. Body Image 2010, 7(3), 194-199.
• Swami V, Furnham A, Chamorro-Premuzic T, Akbar K, Gordon N, Harris T, Finch J, Tovee MJ. More than just skin deep? Personality information influences men's ratings of the attractiveness of women's body sizes. Journal of Social Psychology 2010, 150(6), 628-647.
• Swami V, Tovee MJ. A comparison of actual-ideal weight discrepancy, body appreciation, and media influence between street-dancers and non-dancers. Body Image 2009, 6(4), 304-307.
• Swami V, Steadman L, Tovee MJ. A comparison of body size ideals, body dissatisfaction, and media influence between female track athletes, martial artists, and non-athletes. Psychology of Sport and Exercise 2009, 10(6), 609-614.
• Swami V, Tovee MJ. Big Beautiful Women: The Body Size Preferences of Male Fat Admirers. Journal Of Sex Research 2009, 46(1), 89-96.
• Cornelissen PL, Hancock PJB, Kiviniemi V, George HR, Tovée MJ. Patterns of eye movements when male and female observers judge female attractiveness, body fat and waist-to-hip ratio. Evolution and Human Behavior 2009, 30(6), 417-428.
• Cornelissen PL, Tovee MJ, Bateson M. Patterns of subcutaneous fat deposition and the relationship between body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio: Implications for models of physical attractiveness. Journal of Theoretical Biology 2009, 256(3), 343-350.
• Tovée MJ. An introduction to the visual system. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Swami V, Tovée MJ, Furnham A. Does financial security influence judgements of female physical attractiveness?. Journal of Socio-Economics 2008, 37(4), 1363-1370.
• Swami V, Buchanan T, Furnham A, Tovée MJ. Five-factor personality correlates of perceptions of women's body sizes. Personality and Individual Differences 2008, 45(7), 697-699.
• Swami V, Salem N, Furnham A, Tovée MJ. Initial examination of the validity and reliability of the female photographic figure rating scale for body image assessment. Personality and Individual Differences 2008, 44(8), 1752-1761.
• Swami V, Furnham A, Amin R, Chaudri J, Joshi K, Jundi S, Miller R, Mirza-Begum J, Begum FN, Sheth P, Tovée MJ. Lonelier, Lazier, and Teased: The Stigmatizing Effect of Body Size. Journal of Social Psychology 2008, 148(5), 577-595.
• George HR, Swami V, Cornelissen PL, Tovee MJ. Preferences for body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio do not vary with observer age. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 2008, 6(3), 207-218.
• Swami V, Salem N, Furnham A, Tovée MJ. The influence of feminist ascription on judgements of women's physical attractiveness. Body Image 2008, 5(2), 224-229.
• Swami V, Miller R, Furnham A, Penke L, Tovée MJ. The influence of men's sexual strategies on perceptions of women's bodily attractiveness, health and fertility. Personality and Individual Differences 2008, 44(1), 98-107.
• Swami V, Tovee MJ. The muscular male: A comparison of the physical attractiveness preferences of homosexual and heterosexual men. International Journal of Men’s Health 2008, 7(1), 59-71.
• Swami V, Chan F, Wong V, Furnham A, Tovée MJ. Weight-based discrimination in occupational hiring and helping behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 2008, 38(4), 968-981.
• Smith KL, Tovee MJ, Hancock PJB, Bateson M, Cox MAA, Cornelissen PL. An analysis of body shape attractiveness based on image statistics: Evidence for a dissociation between expressions of preference and shape discrimination. Visual Cognition 2007, 15(8), 927-953.
• Scott I, Bentley GR, Tovée MJ, Uddin Ahamed F, Magid K, Sharmeen T. An evolutionary perspective on male preferences for female body shape. In: Furnham, A; Swami, V, ed. The Body Beautiful: Evolutionary and Socio-cultural Perspectives. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp.65-87.
• Smith KL, Cornelissen PL, Tovee MJ. Color 3D bodies and judgements of human female attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior 2007, 28(1), 48-54.
• Swami V, Tovee MJ. Differences in attractiveness preferences between observers in low- and high-resource environments in Thailand. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 2007, 5(1), 149-160.
• Tovée MJ, Furnham A, Swami V. Healthy body equals beautiful body? Changing perceptions of health and attractiveness with shifting socioeconomic status. In: Furnham, A; Swami, V, ed. The Body Beautiful: Evolutionary and Socio-cultural Perspectives. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp.108-128.
• Swami V, Smith J, Tsiokris A, Georgiades C, Sangareau Y, Tovee MJ, Furnham A. Male physical attractiveness in Britain and Greece: A cross-cultural study. Journal of Social Psychology 2007, 147(1), 15-26.
• Bateson M, Cornelissen PL, Tovée MJ. Methodological issues in judgements of female body Attractiveness. In: Furnham, A; Swami, V, ed. The Body Beautiful: Evolutionary and Socio-cultural Perspectives. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp.46-62.
• Swami V, Tovee MJ. Perceptions of female body weight and shape among indigenous and urban Europeans. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 2007, 48(1), 43-50.
• Swami V, Knight D, Tovee MJ, Davies P, Furnham A. Preferences for female body size in Britain and the South Pacific. Body Image 2007, 4(2), 219-223.
• Swami V, Neto F, Tovee MJ, Furnham A. Preferences for female body weight and shape in three European countries. European Psychologist 2007, 12(3), 220-228.
• Swami V, Tovee MJ. The relative contribution of profile body shape and weight to judgements of women's physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia. Body Image 2007, 4(4), 391-396.
• Swami V, Antonakopoulos N, Tovée MJ, Furnham A. A critical test of the waist-to-hip ratio hypothesis of women's physical attractiveness in Britain and Greece. Sex Roles 2006, 54(3-4), 201-211.
• Vachiramon A, Wang WC, Tovee M. A lighting approach for clinical photographs of the face. Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice 2006, 7(2), 153-159.
• Tovée MJ, Swami V, Furnham A, Mangalparsad R. Changing perceptions of attractiveness as observers are exposed to a different culture. Evolution and Human Behavior 2006, 27(6), 443-456.
• Swami V, Tovée MJ. Does hunger influence judgments of female physical attractiveness?. British Journal of Psychology 2006, 97(3), 353-363.
• Swami V, Caprario C, Tovée MJ, Furnham A. Female physical attractiveness in Britain and Japan: A cross-cultural study. European Journal of Personality 2006, 20(1), 69-81.
• Swami V, Tovee MJ. The influence of body mass index on the physical attractiveness preferences of feminist and nonfeminist hetrosexual women and lesbians. Psychology of Women Quarterly 2006, 30(3), 252-257.
• Evans G, Holliday IE, Senior C, Tovee M, George H. An fMRI study of the perception of body image. In: British Psychophysiology Society Annual Meeting. 2005, Birmingham, UK: Journal of Psychophysiology: Hogrefe.
• Swami V, Tovee MJ. Female physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia: A cross-cultural study. Body Image 2005, 2(2), 115-128.
• Swami V, Tovee MJ. Male physical attractiveness in Britain and Malaysia: A cross cultural study. Body Image 2005, 2(4), 383-393.
• Cormack F, Gray A, Ballard C, Tovee MJ. A failure of 'Pop-Out' in visual search tasks in dementia with Lewy Bodies as compared to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2004, 19(8), 763-772.
• Cormack F, Aarsland D, Ballard C, Tovee MJ. Pentagon drawing and neuropsychological performance in Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's disease with dementia. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2004, 19(4), 371-377.
• Wardle J, Robb KA, Johnson F, Griffith J, Power C, Brunner E, Tovee M. Socioeconomic Variation in Attitudes to Eating and Weight in Female Adolescents. Health Psychology 2004, 23(3), 275-282.
• Golledge HDR, Panzeri S, Zheng F, Pola G, Scannell JW, Giannikopoulos DV, Mason RJ, Tovee MJ, Young MP. Correlations, feature-binding and population coding in primary visual cortex. NeuroReport 2003, 14(7), 1045-1050.
• Tovee MJ. Face cells: The neural basis of face recognition. In: Nadel, L, ed. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London, UK: Nature Publishing Group, 2003, pp.105-109.
• Tovee MJ, Benson PJ, Emery JL, Mason SM, Cohen-Tovee EM. Measurement of body size and shape perception in eating-disordered and control observers using body-shape software. British Journal of Psychology 2003, 94(4), 501-516.
• Ballard C, Stephens S, Kenny R, Kalaria R, Tovee M, O'Brien J. Profile of neuropsychological deficits in older stroke survivors without dementia. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2003, 16(1), 52-56.
• Ballard CG, Aarsland D, McKeith I, O'Brien J, Gray A, Cormaak F, Burn D, Cassidy T, Starfeldt R, Larsen J-P, Brown R, Tovee M. Fluctuations in attention: PD dementia vs DLB with parkinsonism. Neurology 2002, 59(11), 1714-1720.
• Tovee MJ, Hancock PJB, Mahmoodi S, Singleton BRR, Cornelissen PL. Human female attractiveness: waveform analysis of body shape. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 2002, 269(1506), 2205-2213.
• Gigg J, Golledge HDR, McDonald JS, Hurlbert AC, Tovee MJ. Neurons in marmoset V1 encode spatial cone-contrast. Perception 2002, 31(supplement), 67.
• Ballard C, O'Brien J, Tovee M. Qualitative performance characteristics differentiate dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2002, 72(5), 565-566.
• Panzeri S, Golledge HDR, Zheng F, Pola G, Blanche TJ, Tovee MJ, Young MP. The role of correlated firing and synchrony in coding information about single and separate objects in cat V1. Neurocomputing 2002, 44-46, 579-584.
• Ballard C, O'Brien J, Gray A, Cormack F, Ayre G, Rowan E, Thompson P, Bucks R, McKeith I, Walker M, Tovee M. Attention and fluctuating attention in patients with dementia with lewy bodies and alzheimer disease. Archives of Neurology 2001, 58(6), 977-982.
• Tovee MJ, Cornelissen PL. Female and male perceptions of female physical attractiveness in front-view and profile. British Journal of Psychology 2001, 92(2), 391-402.
• Tovee MJ, Brown JE, Jacobs D. Maternal waist-to-hip ratio does not predict child gender. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2001, 268(1471), 1007-1010.
• Panzeri S, Golledge HDR, Zhang FS, Tovee MJ, Young MP. Objective assessment of the functional role of spike train correlations using information measures. Visual Cognition 2001, 8(3-5), 531-547.
• Cormack FK, Tovee M, Ballard C. Contrast sensitivity and visual acuity in patients with Alzheimer's disease. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2000, 15(7), 614-620.
• Ballard CG, McKeith IG, Ayre G, Gray A, Cormack F, Tovee M, O'Brien JT, Walker MP. Impairments in attention and fluctuating attention distinguish between dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease. Neurology 2000, 54(3), A451.
• Tovee MJ, Tasker K, Benson PJ. Is symmetry a visual cue to attractiveness in the human female body?. Evolution and Human Behavior 2000, 21(3), 191-200.
• Walker MP, Ayre GA, Perry EK, Wesnes K, McKeith IG, Tovee M, Edwardson JA, Ballard CG. Quantification and characterisation of fluctuating cognition in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2000, 11(6), 327-335.
• Tovee MJ, Emery JL, Cohen-Tovee EM. The estimation of body mass index and physical attractiveness is dependent on the observer's own body mass index. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2000, 267(1456), 1987-1997.
• Tovee MJ, Maisey DS, Emery JL, Cornelissen PL. Visual cues to female physical attractiveness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 1999, 266(1415), 211-218.
• Benson PJ, Emery JL, Cohen-Tovee EM, Tovee MJ. A computer-graphic technique for the study of body size perception and body types. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 1999, 31(3), 446-454.
• Maisey DS, Vale ELE, Cornelissen PL, Tovee MJ. Characteristics of male attractiveness for women. Lancet 1999, 353(9163), 1500.
• Benson PJ, Campbell R, Harris T, Frank MG, Tovee MJ. Enhancing images of facial expressions. Perception and Psychophysics 1999, 61(2), 259-274.
• Charlton BG, Tovee MJ. Nomenclature of optimal BMI: slim's the word. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine 1999, 92(7), 418-418.
• Tovee MJ, Cornelissen PL. The mystery of female beauty. Nature 1999, 399(6733), 215-216.
• E. T. Rolls,M. J. Tovee,S. Panzeri. The neurophysiology of backward visual masking: Information analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1999, 11(3), 300-311.
• Tovee MJ. A neural basis for the Chorus model?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1998, 21(4), 481-+.
• F. Zheng,H. D. R. Golledge,D. V. Giannikopoulos,R. J. Mason,J. W. Scannell,M. J. Tovee,M. P. Young. Bimodal orientation and motion sensitivity in striate cortical neurons of anaesthetized cat. Journal of Physiology-London 1998, 509P, 58P-58P.
• K. N. Parkinson,M. J. Tovee,E. M. Cohen-Tovee. Body shape perceptions of preadolescent and young adolescent children. European Eating Disorders Review 1998, 6(2), 126-135.
• M. J. Tovee. Face processing: Getting by with a little help from its friends. Current Biology 1998, 8(9), R317-R320.
• M. J. Tovee. Is face processing special?. Neuron 1998, 21(6), 1239-1242.
• M. J. Tovee. More than just a pretty face?. Journal of Biological Education 1998, 32(1), 60-66.
• M. J. Tovee,S. Reinhardt,J. L. Emery,P. L. Cornelissen. Optimum body-mass index and maximum sexual attractiveness. Lancet 1998, 352(9127), 548-548.
• E. T. Rolls,A. Treves,M. J. Tovee,S. Panzeri. Information in the neuronal representation of individual stimuli in the primate temporal visual cortex. Journal of Computational Neuroscience 1997, 4(4), 309-333.
• M. J. Tovee,S. M. Mason,J. L. Emery,S. E. McCluskey,E. M. CohenTovee. Supermodels: stick insects or hourglasses?. Lancet 1997, 350(9089), 1474-1475.
• M. Cooper,E. CohenTovee,G. Todd,A. Wells,M. Tovee. The eating disorder belief questionnaire: Preliminary development. Behaviour Research and Therapy 1997, 35(4), 381-388.
• E. T. Rolls,A. Treves,M. J. Tovee. The representational capacity of the distributed encoding of information provided by populations of neurons in primate temporal visual cortex. Experimental Brain Research 1997, 114(1), 149-162.
• M. Tovee. To find the minds construction in the face. Current Biology 1997, 7(11), R673-R674.
• H. D. R. Golledge,C. C. Hilgetag,M. J. Tovee. A solution to the binding problem?. Current Biology 1996, 6(9), 1092-1095.
• H. D. R. Golledge,C. C. Hilgetag,M. J. Tovee. Information processing: A solution to the binding problem?. Current Biology 1996, 6(9), 1092-1095.
• M. J. Tovee,E. T. Rolls,V. S. Ramachandran. Rapid visual learning in neurones of the primate temporal visual cortex. Neuroreport 1996, 7(15-17), 2757-2760.
• L. F. Abbott,E. T. Rolls,M. J. Tovee. Representational capacity of face coding in monkeys. Cerebral Cortex 1996, 6(3), 498-505.
• M. J. Tovee. Ultraviolet perception - Reply. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 1996, 11(3), 130-130.
• J. W. Scannell,F. Sengpiel,M. J. Tovee,P. J. Benson,C. Blakemore,M. P. Young. Visual motion processing in the anterior ectosylvian sulcus of the cat. Journal of Neurophysiology 1996, 76(2), 895-907.
• M. J. Tovee,E. M. CohenTovee. Working memory: Trouble in mind. Current Biology 1996, 6(1), 13-15.
• M. J. Tovee. Color-Vision - Daltons Eyes and Monkey Genes. Current Biology 1995, 5(6), 583-586.
• M. J. Tovee. Face Recognition - What Are Faces For. Current Biology 1995, 5(5), 480-482.
• E. T. Rolls,M. J. Tovee. Sparseness of the Neuronal Representation of Stimuli in the Primate Temporal Visual-Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 1995, 73(2), 713-726.
• M. J. Tovee. The Genes of Color-Vision. Recherche 1995, 26(272), 26-33.
• E. T. Rolls,M. J. Tovee. The Responses of Single Neurons in the Temporal Visual Cortical Areas of the Macaque When More Than One Stimulus Is Present in the Receptive-Field. Experimental Brain Research 1995, 103(3), 409-420.
• M. J. Tovee. Ultra-Violet Photoreceptors in the Animal Kingdom - Their Distribution and Function. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 1995, 10(11), 455-460.
• M. J. Tovee. Neuronal Processing - How Fast Is the Speed of Thought. Current Biology 1994, 4(12), 1125-1127.
• J. W. Scannell,C. Mills,F. Sengpiel,P. J. Benson,M. J. Tovee,M. P. Young. Pattern Motion Selective Cells in Cat Extrastriate Cortex. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 1994, 35(4), 1828-1828.
• E. T. Rolls,M. J. Tovee. Processing Speed in the Cerebral-Cortex and the Neurophysiology of Visual Masking. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 1994, 257(1348), 9-15.
• M. J. Tovee. The Molecular-Genetics and Evolution of Primate Color-Vision. Trends in Neurosciences 1994, 17(1), 30-37.
• E. T. Rolls,M. J. Tovee,D. G. Purcell,A. L. Stewart,P. Azzopardi. The Responses of Neurons in the Temporal Cortex of Primates, and Face Identification and Detection. Experimental Brain Research 1994, 101(3), 473-484.
• M. J. Tovee,E. T. Rolls,P. Azzopardi. Translation-Invariance in the Responses to Faces of Single Neurons in the Temporal Visual Cortical Areas of the Alert Macaque. Journal of Neurophysiology 1994, 72(3), 1049-1060.
• M. J. Tovee. Color-Vision in New-World Monkeys and the Single-Locus X- Chromosome Theory. Brain Behavior and Evolution 1993, 42(2), 116-127.
• M. J. Tovee,E. T. Rolls,A. Treves,R. P. Bellis. Information Encoding and the Responses of Single Neurons in the Primate Temporal Visual-Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 1993, 70(2), 640-654.
• M. J. Tovee,E. M. Cohentovee. The Neural Substrates of Face Processing Models - a Review. Cognitive Neuropsychology 1993, 10(6), 505-528.
• M.J. Tovee. Colour vision. The Psychologist 1992, 5, 501-503.
• M. J. Tovee,E. T. Rolls. Oscillatory Activity Is Not Evident in the Primate Temporal Visual-Cortex with Static Stimuli. Neuroreport 1992, 3(4), 369-372.
• M. J. Tovee,E. T. Rolls,A. Treves. Short Sample Periods Are Sufficient to Extract a Significant Proportion of the Total Information Encoded in a Neural Spike Train. European Journal of Neuroscience 1992, 262-262.
• M. J. Tovee,E. T. Rolls. The Functional Nature of Neuronal Oscillations. Trends in Neurosciences 1992, 15(10), 387-387.
• M. J. Tovee,J. K. Bowmaker,J. D. Mollon. The Relationship between Cone Pigments and Behavioral Sensitivity in a New-World Monkey (Callithrix-Jacchus-Jacchus). Vision Research 1992, 32(5), 867-878.
• M. J. Tovee,J. D. Mollon,J. K. Bowmaker. The Polymorphism of the Middle-Wave to Long-Wave Cone Photopigments in the Marmoset May Not Conform to the Single Locus X-Chromosome Model. Perception 1990, 19(3), 356-356.
• M. J. Tovee,J. D. Mollon,J. K. Bowmaker. The Polymorphism of the Middle-Wave to Long-Wave Cone Photopigments in the Common Marmoset (Callithrix-Jacchus- Jacchus). Perception 1988, 17(3), 381-381.
• Bateson M, Tovee MJ, George HR, Gouws A, Cornelissen PL. Humans are not fooled by size illusions in attractiveness judgements. Evolution & Human Behavior 2013. Submitted.