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The Paton prize lecture 2021: A colourful experience leading to a reassessment of colour vision and its theories

Zeki, Semir; (2022) The Paton prize lecture 2021: A colourful experience leading to a reassessment of colour vision and its theories. Experimental Physiology , 107 (11) pp. 1189-1208. 10.1113/EP089760. Green open access

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Abstract

In this lecture, given in honour of Sir William Paton, a brilliant scientist and one of Britain's great patrons of biology, I give a personal account of the fundamental issues in colour vision that I have tackled since 1973, when I discovered a cortical zone lying outside the primary visual cortex that is rich in cells with chromatic properties. I do not provide an exhaustive review of colour vision but summarise how my views on colour vision and theories surrounding it have changed in light of that discovery. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Type: Article
Title: The Paton prize lecture 2021: A colourful experience leading to a reassessment of colour vision and its theories
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1113/EP089760
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1113/EP089760
Language: English
Additional information: © 2023 The Authors. Experimental Physiology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Physiological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: area V4, colour constancy, colour vision, wavelength and colour
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Cell and Developmental Biology
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10156413
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