Neural Mechanisms of Color Vision: Double-Opponent Cells in the Visual Cortex

Bevil Richard Conway

Neural Mechanisms of Color Vision: Double-Opponent Cells in the Visual Cortex
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country
United States
Published
6 December 2010
Pages
143
ISBN
9781441952912

Neural Mechanisms of Color Vision: Double-Opponent Cells in the Visual Cortex

Bevil Richard Conway

Dr. Conway mapped the spatial and temporal structure of the cone inputs to single neurons in the primary visual cortex of the alert macaque. Color cells had receptive fields that were often Double-Opponent, an organization of spatial and chromatic opponency sufficient to form the basis for color constancy and spatial color contrast. Almost all color cells gave a bigger response to color when preceded by an opposite color, suggesting that these cells also encode temporal color contrast. In sum, color perception is likely subserved by a subset of specialized neurons in the primary visual cortex. These cells are distinct from those that likely underlie form and motion perception. Color cells establish three color axes sufficient to describe all colors; moreover these cells are capable of computing spatial and temporal color contrast - and probably contribute to color constancy computations - because the receptive fields of these cells show spatial and temporal chromatic opponency.

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