A simple method for comparing peripheral and central color vision by means of two smartphones.

Information on peripheral color perception is far from sufficient, since it has predominantly been obtained using small stimuli, limited ranges of eccentricities, and sophisticated experimental conditions. Our goal was to consider the possibility of facilitating technical realization of the classical method of asymmetric color matching (ACM) developed by Moreland and Cruz (1959) for assessing appearance of color stimuli in the peripheral visual field (VF). We adopted the ACM method by employing two smartphones to implement matching procedure at various eccentricities.

Yarbus's Conceptions on the General Mechanisms of Color Perception.

In the last series of papers published during 1975 to 1980, Alfred Yarbus tried to formulate general conceptions concerning the basic principles of retinal image processing in the human visual system. The original ideas of Yarbus were based on the results of his numerous and various experiments carried out with extraordinary inventiveness and great skill. Being concentrated primarily on the problems of color vision, Alfred Yarbus dreamed of elaborating a comprehensive model that would simulate visual information processing at the monocular precognitive level in the visual system of humans with normal trichromatic color perception.

Visual Percepts in the Cases of Binocular and Monocular Viewing Stabilized Test Objects, Ganzfeld Stimuli, and Prolonged Afterimages.

A thorough analysis of the literature on retinal image stabilization, as well as our own experimental data, present evidence that Yarbus's concept, implying inevitable and irreversible fading of a visible image evoked by stabilized retinal stimulus of any size, color, and luminance in 1 to 3 s after its onset, is not valid in a general case. It has been demonstrated that, even with Yarbus's stabilization techniques, the lifetime of visible images varies from fractions of a second to the whole stimulus duration-up to 30 min in our experiments-depending on many factors: monocular or binocular viewing, stimulus parameters, characteristics of subjects, and so forth. The dynamics of perceived images is determined mainly by the processes at the higher levels of the visual system.