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Why is it Important to See Colors?

What is Color?

A Multitude of Color Names

The Insights of Isaac Newton

  What a Prism Reveals About Color

  What Metamers Reveal About Color

  Newton's Color Circle

The Constancy of Color

The Trichromacy of Human Vision

A Design Decision: How Many Cone Pigments?

  What If Eyes Had Only One Cone Pigment?

  What If Eyes Had Two Cone Pigments?

  What If Eyes Had Three Cone Pigments?

  What if Eyes Had Four Cone Pigments?

What Are the Three Cone Types?

The Geography of the Cones

The Evolution of Cone Photopigments

Color's Opponent Character

What Is the Evidence for Color Opponency?

Chromatic and Achromatic Systems

Opponent Processes and Efficiency of Coding

The Physiological Basis of Opponency

Context and Color Vision

Cortical Mechanisms of Color Vision

Abnormalities Of Color Perception

Congenital Color Deficiency

  Neural Bases of Congenital Color Deficency

  What Does the World Look Like to a "Color-Blind" Person?

  Congenital Supernormality?

Acquired Color Abnormalities

  Ocular Disorders

  Brain damage

  Abnormal early visual experience

  Chromatic Synesthesia








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