| Description |
xxxiii, 422 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Forward. -- Photoreceptors and their evolution. -- 1. Electrons and x-rays reveal the structure of Rhodopsin: A prototypical G protein receptor: Implications for colour vision, JJ Ruprecht & GFX Schertler -- 2. Photopigment polymorphism in prosimians and the origins of primate trichomacy, GH Jacobs & JF Degan -- 3. Did primate trichromacy evolve for frugivory or folivory?, P Sumner &JD Molon -- 4. Lack of S-opsin expression in the brush trailed porcupine and other mammals: is the evolutionary persistence of S-cones a paradox, P Ahnelt, K Moutairou & A Kubber-Heiss -- 5. The arrangement of L and M cones in human and a primate retina, JWL Parry & JD Mollon -- 6. Comparison of human and monkey pigment gene promoters to evaluate DNA sequences proposed to govern L:M cone ratio, C McMahon, J Neitz & M Neitz -- Retinal Processes -- 7. Structure of receptive field centers of midget retinal ganglion cells, BB Lee -- 8. The neural circuit providing input to midget ganglion cells, DW Marshak -- 9. Coding of position of achromatic and chromatic edges by retinal ganglion cells, H Sun, BB Lee & L Ruttinger -- Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Colour Perception -- 10. Psychophysical correlates of parvo- and magnocellular function, VC Smith & J Pokorny -- 11. Spatial contast sensitivity for pulsed and steady pedestal stimuli, L Leonova, J Pokorny and VC Smith -- 12. Chromatic assimilation: evidence for a neural mechanism, SK Shevell & D Cao -- 13. Reaction times in stimuli in isoluminant colour space, DJ McKeefry, NRA Parry & IJ Murray -- 14. Integration times reveal mechanisms responding to isoluminant chromatic gratings: a two-centre Visual Evoked Potential study, AG Robson, JJ Kulikowski, M Korostenskaja, MM Neveu, CR Hogg & GE Holder -- 15. Temporal frequency and contrast adaption, AG Shapiro, SM Hood & JD Mollon -- 16. Contribution of achromatic and chromatic contrast signals to Fechner-Benham subjective colours, J Le Rohellec, H Brettel & F Vienot -- 17. Sensitivity to movement of configuration of achromatic and chromatic points in amblyopic patients, Mattiello, M.L. F de Maniero M & Buglione S -- Rods and Colour Vision -- 18. Convergence as a function of chromatic contrast: a possible contributor to depth perception, GV Paramei & W Jaschinski -- 19. The influence of rods on color naming during dark adaption, JL Nerger, VJ Volbrecht & KA Haase -- Natural Scenes and Colour Constancy -- 20. Stimulus duration affects rod influence on hue perception, SL Buck & R Knight -- 21. Colour discrimination, colour constancy and natural scene statistics, D I A MacLeod -- 22. Tritanopic colour constancy under daylight changes?, DH Foster, K Amano & SM Nascimento -- 23. Calulating appearances in complex and simple images, JJ McCann -- Colour Spaces and their Variation -- 24. The effect of global contrast distribution on colour appearance, K Wolf & AC Hurlbert -- 25. Schopenhauer's 'parts of daylight' in the light of modern colorimetry, JJ Koederink -- 26. Representing an observer's matches in an alien color space, K Knoblauch -- 27. Macular pigment: Nature's notch filter, H E J D Moreland & S Westland -- 28. How to find a tritan line, HE Smithson, P Sumner, JD Mollon -- Inherited Colour Deficiency: Molecular Genetics -- 29. Some properties of the physiological colour system, SS Deeb, W Jagla, C Campenhausen & J Schramme -- 30. Genotypic variation in multi-gene dichromats, SS Deeb, W Jagla, H Jagla, T Hayashi & LT Sharpe -- 31. Hybrid pigment genes, dichromacy and anomalous trichromacy, W Jagla, T Breitsprecher, I Kucsera, G Kovacs, B Wissinger, SS Deeb & LT Sharpe -- Inherited colour deficiency: psychophysics and tests -- 32. Middle wavelength sensitive photopigment gene expression is absent in deuteranomalous colour vision, M Neitz, K Bollinger & J Neitz -- 33. Preliminary norms for the Cambridge Colour Test, L C L Silveira, AR Rodrigues, AJ M de Souza, M Gualtieri, D Bonci & MF Costa -- 34. Evaluation of 'Color vision testing made easy', SJ Dain -- 35. Survey og the colour vision demands in fire-fighting, SJ Dain -- 36. Lantern colour vision tests: one light or two, JK Hovis -- 37. Extreme anomalous trichomatism, JK Hovis -- 38. Red-green deficiency and colour contancy under orthogonal-daylight changes, K Amano, DH Foster & SM Nascimento -- Acquired Deficiencies of Colour Vision -- 39. Color naming, color categories and central color-coding in a case of X-linked incomplete achromatopsia, GH Jacobs, JB Calderone, JB Nolan, MA Crognale & MA Webster -- 40. Effects of retinal detachment on S and M cone function in an animal model, GH Jacobs, JB Calderone, T Sakai, GP Lewis & SK Fisher -- 41. Color vision in central serous chorioretinopathy, DF Ventura, MF Costa, M Gualtieri, M Nishi, MM Mantyjarvi, & T Maaranen -- 42. Early vision loss in diabetic patients assessed by the Cambridge Colour Test, DF Ventura, MF Costa, M Gualtieri, M Nishi, M Bernick, D Bonci & JM de Souza -- 43. Colour-vision disturbances in patients with arterial hypertension, A Schroder, C ERb, S Falk, G Schwartz, J Radermacher & R Winter -- 44. Visual dysfunction following mercury exposure by breating mercury vapour or by eating mercury-contaminated food, LCL Silveira, ETB Damim, M da Concericao Pinheiro, AR Rodrigues, A Moura, MIT Cortes & GA Mello |
| Notes |
Papers presented at a symposium held in Cambridge to celebrate the bicentennial of Thomas Young's lecture on the trichromatic theory of color vision in 1802; sponsored by the International Colour Vision Society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Color blindness -- Congresses.
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Color vision -- Congresses.
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Color Perception.
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Color Vision Defects.
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| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Pokorny, Joel.
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Mollon, J. D.
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Knoblauch, K. (Kenneth)
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International Colour Vision Society.
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| LC no. |
2003278498 2004296293 |
| ISBN |
0198525303 alkaline paper |
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