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Retinal Mechanisms of Colour Vision

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Physiology of Photoreceptor Organs

Part of the book series: Handbook of Sensory Physiology ((1536,volume 7 / 2))

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One of the goals in analyzing a sensory system is a clearer understanding of how physical aspects of a stimulus are changed into a nervous message. This chapter will deal with those retinal responses for which wavelength of light is the important aspect of a stimulus. More generally, it will deal with the role played by various retinal mechanisms in determining the messages which pass along the optic nerve and allow an organism to distinguish colours. The subject matter will be divided between two broad areas: the first treats the spectral characteristics of the fight transducers or visual receptors, since these set the primary limitations on colour discrimination; the second part is concerned with the ways in which the responses of the receptors are treated, analyzed, and transmitted by the later neural elements. Although most of the data has been obtained from animal studies, the aim will be to understand something about the mechanisms underlying human colour vision.

This work was partially supported by the following grants: Research Grant NB-00864 from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, U.S. Public Health Service; Research Grant GB 6540X from the National Science Foundation; and Training Grant GM 01789 from the National Institute of General Medicine, U.S. Public Health Service. The author thanks Dr. James Goedon for critically reading the manuscript and offering many helpful suggestions.

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Abramov, I. (1972). Retinal Mechanisms of Colour Vision. In: Fuortes, M.G.F. (eds) Physiology of Photoreceptor Organs. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 7 / 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65340-7_16

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