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col·or vi·sion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. color vision, chromatic vision, trichromacynoun

    the normal ability to see colors

Wikipedia

  1. Color vision

    Color vision, a feature of visual perception, is an ability to perceive differences between light composed of different frequencies independently of light intensity. Color perception is a part of the larger visual system and is mediated by a complex process between neurons that begins with differential stimulation of different types of photoreceptors by light entering the eye. Those photoreceptors then emit outputs that are propagated through many layers of neurons and then ultimately to the brain. Color vision is found in many animals and is mediated by similar underlying mechanisms with common types of biological molecules and a complex history of evolution in different animal taxa. In primates, color vision may have evolved under selective pressure for a variety of visual tasks including the foraging for nutritious young leaves, ripe fruit, and flowers, as well as detecting predator camouflage and emotional states in other primates.

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  1. color vision

    Color vision is the ability of an organism or device to perceive differences in wavelengths of light as varying colors. This physiological and neurological process involves the retina's light-detecting cells, the cones, which respond differently to certain wavelengths and send signals to the brain that are interpreted as different colors. Humans and many other animals have this capability, with variations in the spectrum of colors perceived and the sensitivity to light. Color vision allows for better perception and interpretation of the environment.

Wikidata

  1. Color vision

    Color vision is the ability of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths of the light they reflect, emit, or transmit. Colors can be measured and quantified in various ways; indeed, a human's perception of colors is a subjective process whereby the brain responds to the stimuli that are produced when incoming light reacts with the several types of cone photoreceptors in the eye. In essence, different people may see the same illuminated object or light source in different ways.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Color Vision

    Function of the human eye that is used in bright illumination or in daylight (at photopic intensities). Photopic vision is performed by the three types of RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTORS with varied peak absorption wavelengths in the color spectrum (from violet to red, 400 - 700 nm).

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of color vision in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of color vision in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of color vision in a Sentence

  1. Jay Neitz:

    Our visual system is supposed to throw away information about the illuminant and extract information about the actual reflectance, but I’ve studied individual differences in color vision for 30 years, and this is one of the biggest individual differences I’ve ever seen.

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