Ultraviolet sensitivity of three cone types in the aphakic observer determined by chromatic adaptation.
Sensitivities at 5.5 deg off-fovea from the aphakic observer superimposed on orange, purple and blue fields were obtained to estimate short-, middle- and long-wavelength cone spectra respectively. The middle-wavelength mechanism had a visible wavelength maximum resembling a nomogram plus an UV sensitivity fitting a cis-peak. The short (and, to a lesser extent, the long) wavelength cone sensitivities are higher in the UV than expected.
Department of Biology, St Louis University, MO 63103-2010.
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D000221:Adaptation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001036:Aphakia, Postcataract / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D012684:Sensory Thresholds / Q000502:physiology; D013053:Spectrophotometry; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays