Effect of foveal tritanopia on reaction times to chromatic stimuli

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 237-242

  Parry, N R A ^a   Plainis, S ^b   Murray, I J ^c   McKeefry, D J ^d  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Color opponency; Contrast gain; Contrast threshold; Foveal tritanopia; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FOVEAL TRITANOPIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; RETINA FOVEA; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 8344252741     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523804213359     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (22)

1. ANDERSON, S.J., MULLEN, K.T. & HESS, R.F. (1991). Human peripheral spatial resolution for achromatic and chromatic stimuli-limits imposed by optical and retinal factors. Journal of Physiology (London) 442, 47-64.
2. CALKINS, D.J. (2001). Seeing with S cones. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research 20, 255-287.
3. CASTANO, J.A. & SPERLING, H.G. (1982). Sensitivity of the blue-sensitive cones across the central retina. Vision Research 22, 661-673.
4. CURCIO, C.A., SLOAN, K.R., KALINA, R.E. & HENDRICKSON, A.E. (1990). Human photoreceptor topography. Journal of Comparative Neurology 292, 497-523.
5. CURCIO, C.A., ALLEN, K.A., SLOAN, K.R., LEREA, C.L., HURLEY, J.B., KLOCK, I.B. & MILAM, A.H. (1991). Distribution and morphology of human cone photoreceptors stained with anti-blue opsin. Journal of Comparative Neurology 312, 610-624.
6. DERRINGTON, A.M., KRAUSKOPF, J. & LENNIE, P. (1984). Chromatic mechanisms in lateral geniculate nucleus of macaque. Journal of Physiology (London) 357, 241-265.
7. GOLZ, J. & MACLEOD, D.I.A. (2003). Colorimetry for CRT displays. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 20, 769-781.
8. MACLEOD, D.I.A. & BOYNTON, R.M. (1979). Chromaticity diagram showing cone excitation by stimuli of equal luminance. Journal of the Optical Society of America 69, 1183
9. MCKEEFRY, D.J., PARRY, N.R.A. & MURRAY, I.J. (2003). Simple reaction times in colour space: The influence of chromaticity, contrast and cone opponency. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 44, 2267-2276.
10. METHA, A.B. & LENNIE, P. (2001). Transmission of spatial information in S-cone pathways. Visual Neuroscience 18, 961-972.
11. MULLEN, K.T. (1991). Color vision as a post-receptoral specialization of the central visual field. Vision Research 31, 119-130.
12. MULLEN, K.T. & KINGDOM, F.A.A. (2002). Differential distributions of red-green and blue-yellow cone opponency across the visual field. Visual Neuroscience 19, 109-118.
13. MURRAY, I.J., PARRY, N.R.A., KREMERS, J., STEPIEN, M. & SCHILD, A. (2004). Photoreceptor topography and cone-specific ERGs. Visual Neuroscience 21, 231-235.
14. MURRAY, I.J. & PLAINIS, S. (2003). Contrast coding and magno/parvo segregation revealed in reaction time studies. Vision Research 43, 2707-2719.
15. PLAINIS, S. & MURRAY, I.J. (2000). Neurophysiological interpretation of human visual reaction times: Effect of contrast, spatial frequency and luminance. Neuropsychologia 38, 1555-1564.
16. ROORDA, A. & WILLIAMS. D.R. (1999). The arrangement of the three cone classes in the living human eye. Nature 397, 520-522.
17. SHARPE, L.T., STOCKMAN, A., KNAU, H. & JAGLE, H. (1998). Macular pigment densities derived from central and peripheral spectral sensitivity differences. Vision Research 38, 3233-3239.
18. SMITH, V.C. & POKORNY, J. (1975). Spectral sensitivity of the foveal cone photopigment between 400 and 500 nm. Vision Research 15, 161-171.
19. SMITHSON, H.E. & MOLLON, J.D. (2001). Reaction times to brief chromatic stimuli. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 42, 532.
20. SMITHSON, H.E., SUMNER, P. & MOLLON, J.D. (2003). How to find a Tritan line. In Normal and Defective Colour Vision, ed. MOLLON, J.D., POKORNY, J. & KNOBLAUCH, K., pp. 279-287. New York: Oxford University Press.
21. SNODDERLY, D.M., BROWN, P.K., DELORI, F.C. & AURAN, J.D. (1984). The macular pigment, 1. Absorbance spectra, localization, and discrimination from other yellow pigments in primate retinas. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 25, 660-673.
22. WILLIAMS, D.R., MACLEOD, D.I.A. & HAYHOE, M.M. (1981). Foveal Tritanopia. Vision Research 21, 1341-1356.