title: Psychophysical evidence for separate channels for the perception of form, color, movement, and depth.
abstract: Physiological and anatomical findings in the primate visual system, as well as clinical evidence in humans, suggest that different components of visual information processing are segregated into largely independent parallel pathways. Such a segregation leads to certain predictions about human vision. In this paper we describe psychophysical experiments on the interactions of color, form, depth, and movement in human perception, and we attempt to correlate these aspects of visual perception with the different subdivisions of the visual system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Livingstone
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Hubel
mesh_terms: D003118:Color Perception; D003867:Depth Perception; D005829:Geniculate Bodies / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D010783:Photometry; D011601:Psychophysics; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception