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- Title
Primate color vision: A comparative perspective.
- Authors
GERALD H. JACOBS
- Abstract
AbstractThirty years ago virtually everything known about primate color vision derived from psychophysical studies of normal and color-defective humans and from physiological investigations of the visual system of the macaque monkey, the most popular of human surrogates for this purpose. The years since have witnessed much progress toward the goal of understanding this remarkable feature of primate vision. Among many advances, investigations focused on naturally occurring variations in color vision in a wide range of nonhuman primate species have proven to be particularly valuable. Results from such studies have been central to our expanding understanding of the interrelationships between opsin genes, cone photopigments, neural organization, and color vision. This work is also yielding valuable insights into the evolution of color vision.
- Subjects
COLOR vision; PRIMATES; EYE physiology; MACAQUES; VISUAL perception; COMPARATIVE studies
- Publication
Visual Neuroscience, 2008, Vol 25, Issue 5/6, p619
- ISSN
0952-5238
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0952523808080760