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Neural mechanisms of color vision. Masao TACHIBANA 1 1Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo pp.376-389
Published Date 1991/6/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1431900139
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The aim of this article is to show how and to what extent Neuroscientists revealed the secrets of color vision. Two main themes are described here, the color mixture and the color constancy. The former is the phenomenon that our color perception can be mimicked by the mixture of only three kinds of colors, say red, green and blue. The latter is the phenomenon that the color of an object does not change even when the illumination of the scene is varied from a blue sky to a flaming sunset.

The physiological basis for the trichromacy was found in 1960's; three kinds of cone pigments were discovered in different types of cones, and intracellular recordings of photoresponses from cones revealed that peaks of spectral sensitivity of cones could be categorized to three groups. The aminoacids sequences of three kinds of human cone pigments are now identified by the application of mole-cular biological techniques and it is demonstrated that there is a close relationship between the muta-tion of cone pigments and the abnormal color vision.


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