Human Colour Vision: Its Basic and Clinical Significance

Anne Fitzgerald, DipAppSci(Cumb), DOBA
Frank Billson, FRACS, FRACO

To understand abnormalities in colour vision a full knowledge of the properties of light, the eye and the brain, all of which are responsible for colour vision is necessary.
This paper presents a review of the physiology of colour vision and gives a detailed explanation of colour vision abnormalities.