title: Transient tritanopia of a second kind.
abstract: Using a psychophysical method that allows the tracking of very rapid changes in sensitivity, we demonstrate an anomaly in the time-course of light adaptation for the short-wave mechanism: after the onset of a yellow (581 nm) field of approximately 10(5.3) td the threshold for short-wave targets does not recover monotonically but continues to rise for several seconds before falling to its equilibrium value. The phenomenon is absent when the adapting field has a wavelength of 511 nm and has been adjusted to give a similar equilibrium value for the short-wave threshold.
authors: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, England.
authors: J D
authors: JD
authors: Mollon
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Stockman
authors: P G
authors: PG
authors: Polden
mesh_terms: D000221:Adaptation, Ocular; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012684:Sensory Thresholds / Q000502:physiology; D013053:Spectrophotometry; D013997:Time Factors