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Color vision

MAY 01, 1948
The 1947 International Conference on Color Vision at Cambridge, England, is reported and analyzed by a participant.
David L. MacAdam

Tracing the working of any one of the human senses from a physical stimulus to its perception by man brings into play taxing problems which reach to the limits of knowledge in each of the sciences it touches. Vision—color vision—is a particularly complicated process to study. Physicists investigate light, how it is emitted, absorbed, reflected, and how it passes through space. Physicists and biologists study how it passes through the eye; biochemists, histologists, electrophysiologists, neurologists, and so forth, study how it is received by the nerve‐sensitive retina and then passed on to the brain. Somewhere along the line the psychologist enters the fray.

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David L. MacAdam, Kodak Research Laboratories.

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