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Color Perception and Environmentally Based Impairments

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Synonyms

Acquired color vision impairment; Acquired color vision loss; Dyschromatopsia

Definition

Decreased discrimination of colors caused by adverse environment, such as long-term occupational exposure to or consumption of drugs, substances, and food containing neurotoxic chemicals.

Color vision early manifests adverse effects of exposure to an environment that contains neurotoxic substances [1, 2]. The acquired color vision impairments, or dyschromatopsias, can be very subtle (subclinical) but also may vary considerably in severity, increasing or decreasing as long as the responsible agent persists, and can become irreversible under long-term exposure and/or agent dose.

There are several scenarios of exposure to hazardous chemical agents in the environment:

  1. i.

    Long-term occupational exposure to certain substances (e.g., neurotoxic metals, organic solvents, carbon disulfide, etc.)

  2. ii.

    Self-administered chronic consumption of substances containing neurotoxic chemicals (e.g., alcohol,...

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  1. Department of Psychology, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, L16 9JD, Liverpool, UK

    Galina V. Paramei

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Modern, Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Ming Ronnier Luo

  2. School of Design, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Ming Ronnier Luo

  3. Graduate Institute of Colour and Illumination, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Ming Ronnier Luo

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Paramei, G.V. (2016). Color Perception and Environmentally Based Impairments. In: Luo, M.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8071-7_71

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