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. 1968 Oct;198(3):549–560. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1968.sp008625

Prereceptor colour vision distortions in protanomalous trichromacy

M Alpern, S Torii
PMCID: PMC1365281  PMID: 5303145

Abstract

1. Scotopic luminosity and fundus spectral reflexion in the protanomalous fail to confirm predictions made from the hypothesis that protanomalous photopic luminosity loss is due to an inert red-absorbing filter in his ocular media.

2. If it were supposed that the luminosity losses were due to a reduced number of normal red cones, the anomaloscope mismatches could result from a prereceptor distortion such as a reduced concentration of macular pigment or a tilt of the foveal cones. Experiments exclude these two possibilities.

3. An anomaloscope is described which makes it possible to measure colour-matching properties of the protanomalous eye by transcleral illumination. Such measurements exclude, as a class, hypotheses which attribute protanomalous colour-matching distortions to an inert filter localized anywhere between the cone outer segment and the cornea.

4. It is concluded that the absorption spectrum of at least one of the three cone visual pigments of the protanomalous eye must differ from that of the pigments of the normal fovea.

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