Colour vision

Colour vision refers to the ability of the visual system to perceive wavelength of light as colours. It is dependent on retinal cone cells, which express photoreceptors that are sensitive to specific wavelengths of light.

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Research | 05 February 2019 | open

Attention to colors induces surround suppression at category boundaries
- Ming W. H. Fang
- , Mark W. Becker
- & Taosheng Liu
Scientific Reports 9, 1443
Research | 22 January 2019 | open

Avian UV vision enhances leaf surface contrasts in forest environments

The utility of UV vision for visualizing habitat structure is poorly known. Here, the authors use optical models and multispectral imaging to show that UV vision reveals sharp visual contrasts between leaf surfaces, potentially an advantage in navigating forest environments.
- Cynthia Tedore
- & Dan-Eric Nilsson
Nature Communications 10, 238
Research | 10 August 2018 | open

Design considerations for the enhancement of human color vision by breaking binocular redundancy
- Bradley S. Gundlach
- , Michel Frising
- , Alireza Shahsafi
- , Gregory Vershbow
- , Chenghao Wan
- , Jad Salman
- , Bas Rokers
- , Laurent Lessard
- & Mikhail A. Kats
Scientific Reports 8, 11971
Research | 29 June 2018 | open

Hypothesis on monochromatic vision in scorpionflies questioned by new transcriptomic data
- Alexander Böhm
- , Karen Meusemann
- , Bernhard Misof
- & Günther Pass
Scientific Reports 8, 9872
Research | 16 May 2018 | open

A Simple Power Law Governs Many Sensory Amplifications and Multisensory Enhancements
- Vincent A. Billock
- & Paul R. Havig
Scientific Reports 8, 7645
Research | 01 March 2018 | open

Melanopsin photoreception contributes to human visual detection, temporal and colour processing
- Andrew J. Zele
- , Beatrix Feigl
- , Prakash Adhikari
- , Michelle L. Maynard
- & Dingcai Cao
Scientific Reports 8, 3842

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Comments and Opinion | 02 March 2018

In the eye of the beholder

How do you define colour? Nina Meinzer casts light on the vision it takes.
- Nina Meinzer
Nature Physics 14, 320
Comments and Opinion | 09 September 2016

Should prospective dental students be screened for colour vision deficits?
- F. Mushtaq
- , R. C. Baraas
- , L. M. Al-Saud
- , I. Mirghani
- , C. van der Zee
- , E. Yates
- , A. Keeling
- , M. A. Mon-Williams
- & M. Manogue
British Dental Journal 221, 227-228
News and Views | 26 June 2012

Another blue neuron in the retina

The diverse population of retinal cell types has now been shown to include one that does a neat trick: an interneuron inverts the sign of the retina's response to blue light, creating the blue-Off output signal to the brain.
- Richard H Masland
Nature Neuroscience 15, 930-931
News and Views | 25 May 2012

Squaring cortex with color

A long-standing puzzle has been the seeming inconsistency between neuronal responses in primary visual cortex to colored stimuli and the elementary perceptual attributes of color vision. Nonlinear analysis resolves this paradox.
- Brian A Wandell
- & E J Chichilnisky
Nature Neuroscience 15, 809-810
Research Highlights | 11 January 2012

Evolution: Colour vision aids the hunt

Nature 481, 116
News and Views | 06 October 2010

Vision: Neurons show their true colours

How do we tell red from green? Work on the primate retina shows how neural circuitry combines signals from individual cone photoreceptor cells to provide the basic building blocks for colour vision. See Article p.673
- Jonathan B. Demb
- & David H. Brainard
Nature 467, 670-671

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