Normal and Defective Colour Vision

The topic of colour vision is one that integrates research from psychology, neuroscience, biology, opthalmology, physics, and genetics. How do we make sense of colour in the world, and how has such an ability evolved in humans? How are colours discriminated by the retina, and how does the brain interpret chromatic information? How can our genes influence the way in which we perceive colours? Why do some people have problems perceiving colours, and what occupational difficulties may they face? In what ways is colour vision altered by disease or toxins? John Mollon, Joel Pokorny, and Ken Knoblauch are leading authorities on the perception of colour. Together they have brought together a distinguished list of contributors to provide an interdisciplinary review of the field. An historical introduction marks the bicentennial of Thomas Young's trichromatic theory and provides useful background for the newcomer to the topic of colour vision. Carefully edited and indexed, this book is aimed at students and researchers in the visual sciences, in perceptual psychology, and in sensory neuroscience. It will be a definitive text on colour perception for some years to come.

1 - Electrons and x-rays reveal the structure of rhodopsin: A prototypical G protein-coupled receptor - Implications for colour vision
2 - Photopigment polymorphism in prosimians and the origins of primate trichromacy
3 - Did primate trichromacy evolve for frugivory or folivory?
4 - Lack of S-opsin expression in the brush tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus) and other mammals. Is the evolutionary persistence of S-cones a paradox?
5 - The arrangement of L and M cones in human and a primate retina
6 - Comparison of human and monkey pigment gene promoters to evaluate DNA sequences proposed to govern L:M cone ratio
7 - Structure of receptive field centers of midget retinal ganglion cells
8 - The neural circuit providing input to midget ganglion cells
9 - Coding of position of achromatic and chromatic edges by retinal ganglion cells
10 - Psychophysical correlates of parvo- and magnocellular function
11 - Spatial contrast sensitivity for pulsed and steady pedestal stimuli
12 - Chromatic assimilation: evidence for a neural mechanism
13 - Reaction times to stimuli in isoluminant colour space
14 - Integration times reveal mechanisms responding to isoluminant chromatic gratings: a two-centre visual evoked potential study
15 - Temporal frequency and contrast adaptation
16 - Contribution of achromatic and chromatic contrast signals to Fechner-Benham subjective colours
17 - Sensitivity to movement of configurations of achromatic and chromatic points in amblyopic patients
18 - Convergence as a function of chromatic contrast: a possible contributor to depth perception
19 - The influence of rods on colour naming during dark adaptation
20 - Stimulus duration affects rod influence on hue perception
21 - The Verriest Lecture: Colour discrimination, colour constancy and natural scene statistics
22 - Tritanopic colour constancy under daylight changes?
23 - Red-green colour deficiency and colour constancy under orthogonal-daylight changes
24 - Calculating appearances in complex and simple images
25 - The effect of global contrast distribution on colour appearance
26 - Schopenhauer's 'parts of daylight' in the light of modern colorimetry
27 - Representing an observer's matches in an alien colour space
28 - Macular pigment: Nature's notch filter
29 - How to find a tritan line
30 - Some properties of the physiological colour system
31 - Genotypic variation in multi-gene dichromats
32 - Hybrid pigment genes, dichromacy and anomalous trichromacy
33 - Middle wavelength sensitive photopigment gene expression is absent in deuteranomalous colour vision
34 - Preliminary norms for the Cambridge Colour Test
35 - Evaluation of 'Colour vision testing made easy'
36 - Survey of the colour vision demands in fire-fighting
37 - Lantern colour vision tests: one light or two
38 - Extreme anomalous trichromatism
39 - Colour naming, colour categories and central colour-coding in a case of X-linked incomplete achromatopsia
40 - Effects of retinal detachment on S and M cone function in an animal model
41 - Colour vision in central serous chorioretinopathy
42 - Early vision loss in diabetic patients assessed by the Cambridge Colour Test
43 - Colour-vision disturbances in patients with arterial hypertension
44 - Visual dysfunction following mercury exposure by breathing mercury vapour or by eating mercury-contaminated food