Colour Perception

Colour Perception, and Colour-Blindness Tests

Colour perception in pseudophakia.

Minor differences in colour perception between pseudophakic, phakic, and spectacle aphakic eyes were identified by the Pickford-Nicholson anomaloscope and the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test. The results suggest that pseudophakic eyes are more sensitive to red and less sensitive to blue than aphakic eyes corrected with spectacles. Spectrophotometer measurements reveal that the Rayner-Pearce pos...

Colour perception in ADHD.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with unexplained impairments on speeded naming of coloured stimuli. These deficits may reflect hypofunctioning retinal dopaminergic mechanisms impairing particularly blue-yellow colour discrimination. Colour perception and rapid colour naming ability were investigated in 14 children with ADHD and 13 healthy peers matched for age, gen...

Colour perception in a dichromat.

Most mammals have dichromatic colour vision based on two different types of cones: a short-wavelength-sensitive cone and a long-wavelength-sensitive cone. Comparing the signal from two cone types gives rise to a one-dimensional chromatic space when brightness is excluded. The so-called ;neutral point' refers to the wavelength that the animal cannot distinguish from achromatic light such as whit...

Understanding colour perception and preference

Colour is a critical cue for many vital behavioural tasks: material identifi cation, object recognition and social–sexual signalling. Given the importance of the behavioural uses of colour, and the known perceptual and physiological properties of colour vision, it is likely that preference for coloured objects drives preference for colours themselves. The underlying universality in patterns of ...