Structural Components Involved In The Human Psychological Experience Of Color Vison.

The structural components and processes of the psychological experience ofhuman color
vision have been both admired and extensively studied throughout the course of human
history. The purpose of this paper is to summarize this first-rate example of a psychological phenomenon that can be understood in physiological terms through literature review. At each level of processing, special attention will be given to the differing roles of magnocellular and parvocellular pathways starting with the early components of the visual system. Particular emphasis will be placed on magnocellular and parvocellular contribution at higher levels of processing, especially VI and V2. The effort will be to progress though the more linear models of early processing to the more complex exponential models of later cortical perception in an effort to more thoroughly describe the holistic experience of color vision. In fact, we will find that as visual information proceeds through the various anatomical structures associated with vision, the distinct functions of magnocellular and parvocellular divisions, though still irl;entiflable, become less exclusive.