Color appearance and the end of Hering's Opponent-Colors Theory.

color perception cones linking hypothesis neural networks perceptual mechanisms

Journal

Trends in cognitive sciences
ISSN: 1879-307X
Titre abrégé: Trends Cogn Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9708669

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
09 2023
Historique:
received: 14 06 2022
revised: 02 06 2023
accepted: 08 06 2023
pmc-release: 01 09 2024
medline: 11 8 2023
pubmed: 3 7 2023
entrez: 2 7 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Hering's Opponent-Colors Theory has been central to understanding color appearance for 150 years. It aims to explain the phenomenology of colors with two linked propositions. First, a psychological hypothesis stipulates that any color is described necessarily and sufficiently by the extent to which it appears reddish-versus-greenish, bluish-versus-yellowish, and blackish-versus-whitish. Second, a physiological hypothesis stipulates that these perceptual mechanisms are encoded by three innate brain mechanisms. We review the evidence and conclude that neither side of the linking proposition is accurate: the theory is wrong. We sketch out an alternative, Utility-Based Coding, by which the known retinal cone-opponent mechanisms represent optimal encoding of spectral information given competing selective pressure to extract high-acuity spatial information; and phenomenological color categories represent an adaptive, efficient, output of the brain governed by behavioral demands.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37394292
pii: S1364-6613(23)00147-X
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.06.003
pmc: PMC10527909
mid: NIHMS1907957
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

791-804

Subventions

Organisme : Intramural NIH HHS
ID : Z99 EY999999
Pays : United States
Organisme : Intramural NIH HHS
ID : ZIA EY000558
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of interests No interests are declared.

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Auteurs

Bevil R Conway (BR)

Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute and National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: bevil@nih.gov.

Saima Malik-Moraleda (S)

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02114, USA.

Edward Gibson (E)

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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