title: Chromatic aberration and the roles of double-opponent and color-luminance neurons in color vision.
abstract: How does the visual cortex encode color? I summarize a theory in which cortical double-opponent color neurons perform a role in color constancy and a complementary set of color-luminance neurons function to selectively correct for color fringes induced by chromatic aberration in the eye. The theory may help to resolve an ongoing debate concerning the functional properties of cortical receptive fields involved in color coding.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology and NeuroImaging Centre, School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30.001, Groningen 9700 RB, The Netherlands. t.vladusich@med.umcg.nl
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vladusich
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003116:Color; D003118:Color Perception; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000166:cytology