Color processing

Gregory William Schwartz

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-819896-4.00017-2

Color processing

Gregory William Schwartz^*

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Ophthalmology

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Color plays a crucial role in visual processing for many animals, including humans. As wavelength is an elementary property of light, color processing begins at the first stage of vision with the relative spectral sensitivities of different photoreceptor types. Subsequent retinal processing creates the "opponent" channels that drive color perception and behavior. This chapter describes the retinal circuits for processing color information in vertebrates. A comparative approach is used throughout, as specializations in color-processing circuits in different species reveal both the diversity of neural mechanisms in nature and the different ecological value of color information to different animals.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Retinal Computation
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	288-317
Number of pages	30
ISBN (Print)	9780128198964
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819896-4.00017-2
State	Published - Aug 17 2021

Keywords

Bird
Blue-yellow
Color
Cones
Dichromatic
Fovea
Goldfish
Horizontal cells (HCs)
L cones
Light
M cones
Midget RGCs
Mouse
Neural mechanisms
Opponency
Red-green
Regional specialization
Regionalization
Reptile
S cones
Strike zone
Tetrachromatic
Trichromatic
Vision
Visual processing
Zebrafish

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Medicine
General Neuroscience

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Color processing

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