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Chapter 3 Color vision
volume 1 of \AZimuth\, North-Holland, (1998)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1387-6783(98)80006-8
Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the physiological basis of color vision and the methods of studying the psychophysics of color vision. The first topic includes an overview of the anatomy of the visual system (the eye, the lateral geniculate nucleus and the visual cortex) and an account of some of the results of electrophysiological investigations of the visual system. The mathematics of color matching is presented and color appearance of the complex arrays of everyday vision is considered. The changes in visual sensitivity produced by viewing both steady and time varying stimuli are discussed. Experiments in which the effects of eye movements are eliminated bring home the point that color vision is not the result of the simple mapping of the light distribution on the retina into the visual image.
