Color Vision

Our Lab has performed many experiments relevant to the Study of Human Color Vision over the years.  While these are mostly subsumed under the other headings for Lab activity, this link provides some specific references which may be of interest.

  1. Ingling, CR, Jr., Burns, SA, and Drum, BA "Desaturating blue increases only chromatic brightness". Vision Research, 17, 501-504, 1977.
  2. Ingling, CR, Jr., Tsou, BH, Gast, TJ, Burns, SA, Emerick, JE, and Riesenberg L "The achromatic channel. I: The non-linearity of minimum border and flicker matches". Vision Research, 18, 379-390, 1978.
  3. Gast TJ and Burns SA "Detection thresholds for lights of varying purity". J. Opt. Soc. Am. 69, 632-633, 1979.
  4. Burns SA, Smith VC, Pokorny J,and Elsner AE "The brightness of equal luminance lights". J. Opt. Soc. Amer. 79, 1225-1231, 1982.
  5. Burns S A, Elsner A E, Pokorny J, and Smith VC, "The Abney effect: chromaticity coordinates of unique and other constant hues". Vision Research. 24, 479-89, 1984.
  6. Burns S A and Elsner AE, "Color matching at high illuminances: the color-match- area effect and photopigment bleaching". J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A 2, 698-704, 1985. (full text) 
  7. Elsner AE, Pokorny J, and Burns SA "Chromaticity discrimination: effects of luminance contrast and spatial frequency". J. Opt. Soc. Amer A. 3, 916-920, 1986.  (full text) 
  8. Elsner AE, Burns SA, and Pokorny J, "Changes in constant hue loci with spatial frequency". Color Res. and Appl. 12, 42-50, 1987. 
  9. Burns SA, Kreitz M, and Elsner AE "Apparatus Note: A computer controlled, two color, laser-based optical stimulator for vision research". Applied  Optics 30: 2063-2065, 1991.(full text) 
  10. Chang, Y., Burns, SA, and Kreitz, MR, "Red-Green Flicker Photometry and Nonlinearities in the Flicker ERG". J. Opt. Soc. Amer. 10, 1413-1422, 1993.(full text) 
  11. Wu, Burns, Reeves, and Elsner Flicker Brightness Enhancement and Visual Nonlinearity; Vision Research 36, 1573-1582,1996.(full text)
  12. Delori and Burns, Estimates of Lens Density from Fundus Reflectometry; J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A. 13,215-226, 1996. (full text)
  13. Marcos S, Burns, SA, Prieto, P, Navarro, RN, Baraibar, B Investigating The Sources For Monochromatic Aberrations And Transverse Chromatic Aberration In Human Eyes Vision Research 41 (28) 3861-3871, 2001.(full text).
  14. McLellan, J.S. Marcos S, Prieto PM & Burns, SA “Imperfect Optics may be the Eye’s Defense Against Chromatic Blur”, Nature 417: 174-176, 2002. (full text)