Normal and defective colour vision / edited by J.D. Mollon, J. Pokorny, and K. Knoblauch.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

xxxiii, 422 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 25 cm

Symposium proceedings held by the International Colour Vision Society.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Photoreceptors and their evolution -- Electrons and X-rays reveal the structure of rhodopsin -- Photopigment polymorphism in prosimians and the origins of primate trichromacy -- Did primate trichromacy evolve for frugivory or folivory? -- Lack of S-opsin expression in the brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus) and other mammals -- Arrangement of L and M cones in human and a primate retina -- Comparison of human and monkey pigment gene promoters to evaluate DNA sequences proposed to govern L:M cone ratio -- Retinal processes -- Structure of receptive field centers of midget retinal ganglion cells -- Neural circuit providing input to midget ganglion cells -- Coding of position of achromatic and chromatic edges by retinal ganglion cells -- Spatial and temporal aspects of colour perception -- Psychophysical correlates of parvo- and magnocellular function -- Spatial contrast sensitivity for pulsed- and steady-pedestal stimuli -- Chromatic assimilation: evidence for a neural mechanism -- Reaction times to stimuli in isoluminant colour space -- Integration times reveal mechanisms responding to isoluminant chromatic gratings -- Temporal frequency and contrast adaptation -- Contribution of achromatic and chromatic contrast signals to Fechner-Benham subjective colours -- Sensitivity to movement of configurations of achromatic and chromatic points in amblyopic patients -- Convergence as a function of chromatic contrast: a possible contributor to depth perception? -- Rods and colour constancy -- Influence of rods on color naming during dark adaptation -- Stimulus duration affects rod influence on hue perception. -- Natural scenes and colour constancy -- Verriest Lecture: Colour discrimination, colour constancy and natural scene statistics -- Tritanopic colour constancy under daylight changes? -- Red-green colour deficiency and colour constancy under orthogonal-daylight changes -- Calculating appearances in complex and simple images -- Effect of global contrast distribution on colour appearance -- Colour spaces and their variation -- Schopenhauer's "parts of daylight" in the light of modern colorimetry -- Representing an observer's matches in an alien colour space -- Macular pigment: nature's notch filter -- How to find a tritan line -- Some properties of the physiological colour system -- Inherited colour deficiency: molecular genetics -- Genotypic variation in multi-gene dichromats -- Hybrid pigment genes, dichromacy, and anomalous trichromacy -- Middle wavelength sensitive photopigment gene expression is absent in deuteranomalous colour vision -- Inherited colour deficiency: psychophysics and tests -- Preliminary norms for the Cambridge colour test -- Evaluation of "Colour vision testing made easy" -- Survey of the colour vision demands in fire-fighting -- Lantern colour vision tests: one light or two? -- Extreme anomalous trichomatism -- Colour naming, colour categories, and central colour-coding in a case of X-linked incomplete achromatopsia -- Acquired deficiencies of colour vision -- Effects of retinal detachment on S and M cone function in an animal model -- Colour vision in central serous chorioretinopathy -- Early vision loss in diabetic patients assessed by the Cambridge Colour Test -- Colour-vision disturbances in patients with arterial hypertension -- Visual dysfunction following mercury exposure by breathing mercury vapour or by eating mercury-contaminated food.

Wellcome Trust grant output. Grantholder: J.D. Mollon. Grant type: Symposia. Grant number: 063521.