title: Yellow filters, magnocellular responses, and reading.
abstract: It has been suggested that yellow filters may increase magnocellular responsivity. This suggestion was, in large part, based on the assumption that the S-cones inhibit the magnocellular system. However, the evidence invoked to justify this assumption is only indirect. A previously reported direct electrophysiological investigation of this issue has found that S-cone input to the magnocellular system actually sum with L-and M-cone inputs. Therefore, the notion that yellow filters enhance magnocellular responses by reducing inhibition from S-cones cannot be maintained.
authors: Skottun Research, Ramah, New Mexico, USA.
authors: Bernt Christian
authors: BC
authors: Skottun
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Skoyles
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D005374:Filtration; D006801:Humans; D011932:Reading; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology