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  Selective Color Constancy Deficits after Circumscribed Unilateral Brain Lesions

Rüttiger, L., Braun DI, Gegenfurtner, K., Petersen D, Schönle, P., & Sharpe, L. (1999). Selective Color Constancy Deficits after Circumscribed Unilateral Brain Lesions. Journal of Neuroscience, 19(8), 3094-3106. Retrieved from http://www.jneurosci.org/content/19/8/3094.long.

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Rüttiger, L, Author
Braun DI, Gegenfurtner, KR1, Author           
Petersen D, Schönle, P, Author
Sharpe, LT, Author
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1Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497797              

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 Abstract: The color of an object, when part of a complex scene, is determined not only by its spectral reflectance but also by the colors of all other objects in the scene (von Helmholtz, 1886; Ives, 1912; Land, 1959). By taking global color information into account, the visual system is able to maintain constancy of the color appearance of the object, despite large variations in the light incident on the retina arising from changes in the spectral content of the illuminating light (Hurlbert, 1998; Maloney, 1999). The neural basis of this color constancy is, however, poorly understood. Although there seems to be a prominent role for retinal, cone-specific adaptation mechanisms (von Kries, 1902; Pöppel, 1986; Foster and Nascimento, 1994), the contribution of cortical mechanisms to color constancy is still unclear (Land et al., 1983; D’Zmura and Lennie, 1986). We examined the color perception of 27 patients with defined unilateral lesions mainly located in the parieto-temporo-occipital and fronto-parieto-temporal cortex. With a battery of clinical and specially designed color vision tests we tried to detect and differentiate between possible deficits in central color processing. Our results show that color constancy can be selectively impaired after circumscribed unilateral lesions in parieto-temporal cortex of the left or right hemisphere. Five of 27 patients exhibited significant deficits in a color constancy task, but all of the 5 performed well in color discrimination or higher-level visual tasks, such as the association of colors with familiar objects. These results indicate that the computations underlying color constancy are mediated by specialized cortical circuitry, which is independent of the neural substrate for color discrimination and for assigning colors to objects.

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 Dates: 1999-04
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 Identifiers: URI: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/19/8/3094.long
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 19 (8) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 3094 - 3106 Identifier: -