Color-axis determination on the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test.
Error scores on the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test were partitioned into those representing red-green and those representing blue-yellow losses. Data from two groups of normal observers were used. One group showed results characteristic of published norms; one group showed superior performance. Both observers showed a correlation between red-green and blue-yellow scores indicative of a strong performance factor in this test. The difference between blue-yellow and red-green scores eliminates their correlated variance and allows evaluation of the axis. Both groups showed an increase in difference scores, with age indicating development of a blue-yellow axis. This increase was significant for the observers characteristic of the norms. We suggest cutoff scores to allow a decision as to whether a given patient shows a blue-yellow or red-green axis.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D003119:Color Perception Tests / Q000379:methods*; D003117:Color Vision Defects / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged