Overview
- A comprehensive overview also meant for non-specialists
- Uses a comparative context to understand the constraints imposed on human color vision
- A description of color vision at all major levels of the visual system
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Vision Research (SSVR, volume 5)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Our understanding of human color vision has advanced tremendously in recent years, helped along by many new discoveries, ideas, and achievements. It is therefore timely that these new developments are brought together in a book, assembled specifically to include new research and insight from the leaders in the field. Although intentionally not exhaustive, many aspects of color vision are discussed in this Springer Series in Vision Research book including: the genetics of the photopigments; the anatomy and physiology of photoreceptors, retinal and cortical pathways; color perception; the effects of disorders; theories on neuronal processes and the evolution of human color vision. Several of the chapters describe new, state-of-the-art methods within genetics, morphology, imaging techniques, electrophysiology, psychophysics, and computational neuroscience. The book gives a comprehensive overview of the different disciplines in human color vision in a way that makes it accessible to specialists and non-specialist scientists alike.
About the Series:
The Springer Series in Vision Research is a comprehensive update and overview of cutting edge vision research, exploring, in depth, current breakthroughs at a conceptual level. It details the whole visual system, from molecular processes to anatomy, physiology and behavior and covers both invertebrate and vertebrate organisms from terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Each book in the Series is aimed at all individuals with interests in vision including advanced graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, established vision scientists and clinical investigators. The series editors are N. Justin Marshall, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia and Shaun P. Collin, Neuroecology Group within the School of Animal Biology and the Oceans Institute at the University of Western Australia.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Color Vision
Editors: Jan Kremers, Rigmor C. Baraas, N. Justin Marshall
Series Title: Springer Series in Vision Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44978-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44976-0Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83177-0Published: 11 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44978-4Published: 06 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2625-2635
Series E-ISSN: 2625-2643
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 361
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Ophthalmology