Color Vision

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction / Backhaus, Werner G. K. / Kliegl, Reinhold / Werner, John S. -- I Color Vision in Art and Science -- 1. Aging through the Eyes of Monet / Werner, John S. -- II Physiology and Neuroethology -- 2. Physiological and Psychophysical Simulations of Color Vision in Humans and Animals / Backhaus, Werner G. K. -- 3. Receptors, Channels and Color in Primate Retina / Lee, Barry B. -- 4. Chromatic Processing in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) / Kremers, Jan / Zrenner, Eberhart / Weiss, Stefan / Meierkord, Sabine -- 5. Molecular Genetics and the Biological Basis of Color Vision / Neitz, Maureen / Neitz, Jay -- 6. Source Analysis of Color-Evoked Potentials in a Realistic Head Model Confirmed by Functional MRI / Paulus, Walter / Kolle, Renate / Baudewig, Jürgen / Freudenthaler, Nora / Kunkel, Mathias / Finkenstaedt, Michael / Rustenbeck, Hans-Heino -- 7. Wavelength Information Processing versus Color Perception: Evidence from Blindsight and Color-Blind Sight / Stoerig, Petra -- 8. Color Vision in Lower Vertebrates / Neumeyer, Christa -- 9. Color Vision: Ecology and Evolution in Making the Best of the Photic Environment / Kevan, Peter G. / Backhaus, Werner G. K. -- III Psychology and Philosophy -- 10. The Perception of Blackness: An Historical and Contemporary Review / Volbrecht, Vicki J. / Kliegl, Reinhold -- 11. Basic Color Terms and Basic Color Categories / Hardin, Clyde L. -- 12. Color Perception: From Grassmann Codes to a Dual Code for Object and Illumination Colors / Mausfeld, Rainer -- 13. Color Contrast Gain Control / D'Zmura, Michael -- 14. Binocular Brightness Combination: A Mechanism for Combining Two Sources of Rather Similar Information / Irtel, Hans -- 15. Inferences about Infant Color Vision / Knoblauch, Kenneth / Bieber, Michelle L. / Werner, John S. -- IV Color Metrics and Application -- 16. Dichromacy - The Simplest Type of Color Vision / Scheibner, Horst -- 17. Current CIE Work to Achieve Physiologically-Correct Color Metrics / Schanda, János -- 18. Use of Computer Graphics in PostScript for Color Didactics / Richter, Klaus -- List of Contributors -- Index