Human Color Vision

ISBN-13: 9783319449760 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 361 str.

Jan Kremers; Rigmor Baraas; N. Justin Marshall

Opis

Over the last decade, polarised light and its use in nature has grown to take on a prominent role in visual neuroscience. This book covers many of the advances made since the 2004 Springer volume Polarised Light in Animal Vision edited by Horvath and Varju, but also provides reviews and synopses of some areas. With each chapter written by experts in the relavant field, the book is intended for anyone interested in animal vision, environmental optics, polarized light and polarization sensitivity. The book is divided into three sections. Part I examines polarization sensitivity across many animal taxa including vertebrates and invertebrates and details both terrestrial and aquatic life. Part II is devoted to the description of polarized light in nature and points towards how the physics of the light variables must be detected by the visual systems. This includes underwater polarization due to scattering; polarization patterns reflected from freshwater bodies; polarization characteristics of forest canopies; normal and anomalous polarization patterns of the skies; skylight polarization transmitted through Snel s window and both linearly and circularly polarized signals produced by terrestrial and aquatic animals . A large part of the book also examines polarized light pollution induced by anthropogenic factors such as reflection off asphalt surfaces, glass panes, car bodies, and other man-made structures that are now known to form ecological traps for polarotactic insects. Part III surveys some of the practical applications of polarization vision including polarization-based traps for biting insects, ground-based polarimetric cloud detectors and an historical examination of the navigational abilities of Viking seafairers using the sky polarisation compass. The deterrant qualities of ungulate pelage to polarization sensitive biting insects is also examined in this section."

Spis treści

Preface.- 1. The Genetics of Color Vision and Congenital Color.- 2. The Retinal Processing of Photoreceptor Signals.- 3. Functional Imaging of Cone Photoreceptors.- 4. Cone Opponency: An Efficient Way of Transmitting Chromatic Information.- 5. Psychophysical Correlates of Retinal Processing.- 6. Color Constancy and Contextual Effects on Color Appearance.- 7. Color in the Cortex.- 8. Interactions of Color Vision with Other Visual Modalities.- 9. Computational Modeling of Color Vision.- 10. Color Vision in Clinical Practice.- 11. Evolution of Color Vision.- Index.

Blurb

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.