title: Mechanisms of central color vision.
abstract: In monkey cerebral cortex, color information is processed along the ventral visual pathway. This pathway starts in the primary visual cortex and ends in area TE of the inferior temporal cortex. Recent studies indicate that the transformation of cone signals occurs early in the pathway to form neurons selective to a narrow range of hues. In addition, it has become apparent that area TE plays a vital role in color discrimination.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Neural Control, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Aichi, Japan. komatsu@nips.ac.jp
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Komatsu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D016014:Linear Models; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*