Visual search and the conspicuity of coloured targets for colour vision normal and colour vision deficient observers

Colour-Vision and Colour-Blindness

Colour recognition at large visual eccentricities in normal observers and patients with low vision.

When we look at our spatial environment we have the feeling that the whole visual field is coloured, yet the density of cone photoreceptors decreases considerably as eccentricity increases. We investigated colour perception (coloured/noncoloured), colour naming and whether colour helps object recognition at eccentricities varying from 0 degrees to 80 degrees in healthy observers and patients wi...

An Example of Applied Colour Vision Research: The Conspicuity of Airplane Colour

This paper describes the application of the combined knowledge on colorimetry, colour imaging (visualization) and colour perception in an aviation related research project. It involves the optimisation of the conspicuity of the colour scheme of an airplane, with the purpose of minimizing the changes of a mid-air collision. Subjects determined the conspicuity (here defined as object detection in...

The Recognition of Flashing Coloured Lights by Persons with Normal and Defective Colour Vision.

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Colour vision

The immense range of colours that we see belies the relative simplicity of the system underlying colour vision. We see colours because each of the three distinct types of cone photoreceptor in our retinae is sensitive to a different range of wavelengths of light. The L, M and S cones, colloquially called red (R), green (G), and blue (B), are selective for long, middle and short wavelengths, res...