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by Karl Gegenfurtner and Ted Sharpe, is now available from
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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