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Human Color Vision pp 33–70Cite as

The Retinal Processing of Photoreceptor Signals

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Abstract

Color vision is the ability to perceive differences in the wavelength content of a light source, a process which starts with absorption of photons of different wavelengths and energies by the photopigments. In this chapter, the photopigments and the efficiency with which light of different wavelengths are absorbed by a photopigment are discussed. In addition, the translation of a photoisomerization to a photoreceptor excitation is considered as well as the signal transmission from the photoreceptors to post-receptoral cells and the post-receptoral processing of this signal in the retina. A large part of the chapter provides an overview of recent evidence that retinal processes in the major retino-geniculate pathways that are relevant for luminance and color vision, can be studied in the intact visual system by electroretinography (ERG), thus providing the possibility of direct study of human retinal physiology.

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Luiz Carlos da Silva Silveira passed away on 10th July 2016. This work was supported by German Research Council (DFG) grants KR 1317/9-1, KR1317/9-2 and KR1317/13-1.

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Kremers, J., Silveira, L.C.L., Parry, N.R.A., McKeefry, D.J. (2016). The Retinal Processing of Photoreceptor Signals. In: Kremers, J., Baraas, R., Marshall, N. (eds) Human Color Vision. Springer Series in Vision Research, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44978-4_2

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