title: The change in color matches with retinal angle of incidence of the colorimeter beams.
abstract: Differences between W.D.W. chromaticities of monochromatic lights obtained with all colorimeter beams incident on the retina "off-axis" and those found for lights striking the retina normally have been studied throughout the visible spectrum on 4 normal trichromats. The results are inconsistent with: (i) the assumption in Weale's theories of the Stiles-Crawford hue shift that the sets of absorption spectra of the visual pigments catching normally and obliquely incident photons are identical, and (ii) "self-screening" explanations for the change in color with angle of incidence on the retina. The color matching functions of a protanomalous trichromat are inconsistent with the hypothesis that the absorption spectra of the visual pigments catching normally incident photons in his retina are those catching obliquely incident photons in the normal retina.
authors.affiliation: Vision Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alpern
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kitahara
authors.forename: G H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Fielder
mesh_terms: D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D012168:Retinal Pigments / Q000502:physiology*; D013053:Spectrophotometry; D014794:Visual Fields
chemical_list: D012168:Retinal Pigments