PSYCHOPHYSICS OF NORMAL & DEFECTIVE COLOR VISION

这项拟议的研究有两个密切相关的目标。 第一个目标是更好地理解 强调了空间和时间属性的差异 正常观察者的颜色和亮度编码。第二个目标 就是了解这些特性中发生的异常 在一些颜色不足的观察者身上。心理物理实验将会 用来研究光适应对空间和空间分布的影响 颜色和亮度编码的时间属性，并确定 颜色和亮度编码如何随视网膜位置变化。那里 这些实验有两个目的。空间和时间 颜色编码的属性明显不同于亮度的属性 在正常观察者中进行编码。第一个目的是评估 作为基础的神经机制的可能模型 正常观察者在颜色和亮度编码方面的差异。这个 这些实验的第二个目的是进一步了解 颜色信息的神经编码中出现的异常 在一些先天颜色缺陷的观察者身上。建议数 这项研究应该对有关的理论有直接的意义。 颜色和亮度编码的机制以及对 视力缺陷的临床心理物理测试，测试 用于实际应用的色觉能力，以及 颜色缺陷的遗传学。

There are two closely related goals for the proposed research. The first goal is to better understand the visual mechanisms which underlay the differences in spatial and temporal properties of color and luminance coding in normal observers. The second goal is to understand the abnormalities in these properties which occur in some color deficient observers. Psychophysical experiments will be used to study the effects of light adaptation on the spatial and temporal properties of color and luminance coding, and to determine how color and luminance coding vary with retinal location. There are two purposes to these experiments. The spatial and temporal properties of color coding clearly differ from those of luminance coding in normal observers. The first purpose is to evaluate possible models of the neural mechanisms which underlay the differences in color and luminance coding in normal observers. The second purpose of these experiments is to further understand the abnormalities in the neural coding of color information which occur in some congenital color deficient observers. The proposed research should have direct significance for theories about the mechanisms of color and luminance coding as well as impact of clinical psychophysical testing of visual defects, the testing of color vision capabilities for practical applications, and the genetics of color deficiencies.