color discrimination
Distinguishing between shades
Color discrimination is the ability to perceive and distinguish between different colors.
In vision science and ophthalmology, it describes how well someone can differentiate hues: The test measures color discrimination in pilots.
People with color blindness have impaired color discrimination.
The term also appears in contexts involving unfair treatment based on color—see racial discrimination.
- colorimeterDevice measuring color intensity
- conesTapering geometric solids
- rodsThin cylindrical shafts
- spectrophotometerLight-measuring analytical instrument
- emotional responseFeeling prompted by stimulus
wavelength · saturation · retina · photoreceptors · hue · skin tone · brightness · visual illusions · image processing · aesthetic judgment · racial bias · equal treatment · Ishihara test · seeing red · computer vision · colorism · fair housing · civil rights
- color visionred-green blindness, Ishihara test
- color sciencecolorimetry, chromaticity, chroma, hue, value
- color vision testsIshihara test
- Vision Cellsphotoreceptors, photoreceptor, rods, cones, rod cells
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