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Readings and References

There are many books specifically on colour vision. The book by Mollon et al. (2003) contains many interesting short chapters that go well beyond the scope of this chapter.

Papers on specific issues

Why do we have colour vision?: Some articles covering this, and cerebral achromatopsia too, are Bowmaker (1983); Mollon (1989), and Wolf (2002), which is a guide to Patraga et al. (2002). You might also take a look at Snowden (2002) to see how colour automatically attracts our attention.

Colour blindness: All you really need to know can be found in Nathans (1989).

What is the colour vision of other animals like?: Ever wondered what other species see? Well, try Goldsmith (1990) or Thompson et al. (1992) . A comparison of the colour vision of many mammals can be found in Jacobs (1993).

Koniocellular pathway: The finding of a unique blue/yellow pathway is quite recent and its properties are somewhat surprising: see Dacey and Lee (1994).

Brain areas involved in colour: There is currently much debate over the role of various visual areas in colour vision (e.g. area V4 and V8: see Hadjikhani et al. (1998).

Colour constancy: For the classic early experiments see Land (1983), and for more recent work see Jameson and Hurvich (1989); Webster and Mollon (1995), and Kraft and Brainard (1999).

Cerebral achromatopsia: The effects of brain damage on colour vision is well illustrated by Cowey and Heywood (1995).

 

References

Birch, J. (1993) Diagnosis of defective colour vision. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bishop, R. (1981-82). Rainbow over Woolsthorpe Manor. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 36, 3-12. [PubMed: 11610947,11610946,11610945,11610944,11610943,11610778,11610777,11610776]

Bowmaker, J. K. (1983). Trichromatic colour vision: why only three receptor channels? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 6, 41-43.  ↑

Cowey, A. and Heywood, C. A. (1995). There's more to colour than meets the eye. Behavioural Brain Research 71, 89-100. [PubMed: 8747177] [DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328%2895%2900046-1]  ↑

Dacey, D. M. and Lee, B. B. (1994). The 'blue-on' opponent pathway in primate retina originates from a distinct bistratified ganglion cell type. Nature 367, 731-735. [PubMed: 8107868] [DOI: 10.1038/367731a0]  ↑

de Monasterio, F. M. and Gouras, P. (1975). Functional properties of ganglion cells of the rhesus monkey retina. Journal of Physiology (London) 251, 67-95.

Domb, L. G. and Pagel, M. (2001). Sexual swellings advertise female quality in wild baboons. Nature 410, 204-206. [PubMed: 11242079] [DOI: 10.1038/35065597]

Goldsmith, T. H. (1990). Optimization, constraint, and history in the evolution of eyes. Quarterly Review of Biology 65, 281-322. [PubMed: 2146698] [DOI: 10.1086/416840]  ↑

Hadjikhani, N., Liu, A. K., Dale, A. M., Cavanagh, P., and Tootell, R. B. H. (1998). Retinotopy and color sensitivity in human visual cortical area V8. Nature Neuroscience 1(3), 235-241. [PubMed: 10195149] [DOI: 10.1038/681]  ↑

Jacobs, G. H. (1993). The distribution and nature of colour vision among the mammals. Biological Review 68, 413-471. [DOI: 10.1086/418174]  ↑

Jameson, D. and Hurvich, L. M. (1989). Essay concerning color constancy. Annual Review of Psychology 40, 1-22. [PubMed: 2648972] [DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ps.40.020189.000245]  ↑

Kraft, J. M. and Brainard, D. H. (1999). Mechanisms of color constancy under nearly natural viewing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 96(1), 307-312. [PubMed: 9874814] [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.1.307]  ↑

Land, E. H. (1983). Recent advancement in retinex theory and some implications for cortical computations: color vision and the natural image. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 80, 5163-5169. [PubMed: 6576382] [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.80.16.5163]  ↑

Mollon, J. D. (1989). 'Tho' she knee'd in that place where they grew... ': the uses and origins of primate colour vision. Journal of Experimental Psychology 146, 21-38.  ↑

Mollon, J., Pokorny, J., and Knoblauch, K."(2003) Normal and Defective Colour Vision. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  ↑

Nathans, J. (1989). The genes for color vision. Scientific American, February, 28-35.  ↑

Patraga, C. A., Troscianko, T., and Tolhurst, D. J. (2002). Spatio-chromatic properties of natural images and human vision. Current Biology 12, 483-487. [DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822%2802%2900718-2]  ↑

Peichl, L. (2005). Diversity of mammalian photoreceptor properties: adaptations to habitat and lifestyle? The Anatomical Record 287A, 1001-1012. [DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20262]

Snowden, R. J. (2002). Visual attention to color: parvocellular guidance of attentional resources? Psychological Science 30(13), 180-184. [DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00433]  ↑

Thompson, E., Palacios, A. G., and Varela, F. J. (1992). Ways of coloring: comparative color vision as a case study for cognitive science. Behavioral Brain Science 15, 1-75.  ↑

Webster, M. A. and Mollon, J. D. (1995). Colour constancy influenced by contrast adaptation. Nature 373, 694-698. [PubMed: 7854451] [DOI: 10.1038/373694a0]  ↑

Wolf, K. (2002). Visual ecology: coloured fruit is what the eye sees best. Current Biology 12, 253-255. [DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822%2802%2900785-6]  ↑