CVNet - color vision book

Color and Vision Network (cvnet@lawton.ewind.com)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:34:50 -0800

From: karl@kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de (Karl Gegenfurtner)
To: cvnet@lawton.ewind.com
Subject: Color vision: from genes to perception now available

The book "Color vision: from genes to perception", edited
by Karl Gegenfurtner and Ted Sharpe, is now available from
Cambridge University Press. The table of contents is listed
below. The book can be ordered via CUP or Amazon:

http://www.cup.org/ObjectBuilder/ObjectBuilder.iwx?ProcessName=ProductPage&product_id=0-521-59053-1&origin=search

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521590531

Color Vision: From Genes To Perception
Karl R. Gegenfurtner & Lindsay T. Sharpe
Cambridge University Press, New York, 1999

Contents

Contributors vii
Foreword by Brian B. Boycott ix
Acknowledgments xi

Part I: Photoreceptors 1

1. Opsin genes, cone photopigments, color vision, and color blindness 3
Lindsay T. Sharpe, Andrew Stockman, Herbert Jaegle, and Jeremy Nathans

2. Cone spectral sensitivities and color matching 53
Andrew Stockman and Lindsay T. Sharpe

3. Photopigments and the biophysics of transduction in cone photoreceptors 89
Trevor Lamb

4. Electrophysiology of cone photoreceptors in the primate retina 103
Julie L. Schnapf and David M. Schneeweis

5. The trichromatic cone mosaic in the human eye 113
David R. Williams and Austin Roorda

6. The ecology and evolution of primate color vision 123
Jan Kremers, Luiz Carlos L. Silveira, Elizabeth S. Yamada, and Barry B. Lee

Part II: Retinal Circuitry 143

7. Parallel pathways from the outer to the inner retina in primates 145
Heinz Waessle

8. Synaptic organization of cone pathways in the primate retina 163
David J. Calkins

9. Functional architecture of cone signal pathways in the primate retina 181
Dennis M. Dacey and Barry B. Lee

10.Receptor inputs to primate ganglion cells 203
Barry B. Lee

Part III: Cortical Processing 219

11.Parallel retino-cortical channels and luminance 221
Robert M. Shapley and Michael J. Hawken

12.Color coding in the cortex 235
Peter Lennie

13.Chromatic signals in extrastriate areas V2 and V3 249
Daniel C. Kiper, Jonathan B. Levitt, and Karl R. Gegenfurtner

14.Computational neuroimaging: color tuning in two human cortical areas
measured using fMRI 269
Brian A. Wandell, Heidi A. Baseler, Allen B. Poirson, Geoffrey M. Boynton,
and Stephen A. Engel

15.Interactions between color and motion in the primate visual system 283
Michael J. Hawken and Karl R. Gegenfurtner

Part IV: Perception 301

16.Higher order color mechanisms 303
John Krauskopf

17.Color and brightness induction: from Mach bands to three-dimensional configurations 317
Qasim Zaidi

18.Chromatic detection and discrimination 345
Rhea T. Eskew Jr., James S. McLellan, and Franco Giulianini

19.Contrast gain control 369
Michael D'Zmura and Benjamin Singer

20.Physics-based approaches to modeling surface color perception 387
Laurence T. Maloney

References 417
Author index 465
Subject index 483