Continuing Commentary Commentary on Stephen E. Palmer (1999). Color, consciousness, and the isomorphism constraint. BBS 22(6):923–989
Color, qualia, and psychophysical constraints on equivalence of color experience
Vincent A. Billock a1andBrian H. Tsou a2 a1 General Dynamics, Inc., U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Suite 200, 5200 Springfield Pike, Dayton, OH 45431
Vince.Billock@wpafb.af.mil a2 U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, OH 45431
Brian.Tsou@wpafb.af.mil
Abstract
It has been suggested that difficult-to-quantify differences in visual processing may prevent researchers from equating the color experience of different observers. However, spectral locations of unique hues are remarkably invariant with respect to everything other than gross differences in preretinal and photoreceptor absorptions. This suggests a stereotyping of neural color processing and leads us to posit that minor differences in observer neurophysiology may be irrelevant to color experience.
