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Descriptor English: Color Perception
Descriptor Spanish: Percepción de Color
Descriptor percepción del color
Scope note: Procesamiento mental de las señales cromáticas (VISIÓN DEL COLOR) procedentes del ojo en la CORTEZA VISUAL donde se convierten en representaciones simbólicas. En la percepción del color participan numerosas neuronas, y está influida no solo por la distribución de las longitudes de onda del objeto visionado, sino también por su color de fondo, contraste y brillo en sus límites.
Descriptor Portuguese: Percepção de Cores
Descriptor French: Perception des couleurs
Entry term(s): Color Perceptions
Perception, Color
Perceptions, Color
Tree number(s): F02.463.593.932.217
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003118
Scope note: Mental processing of chromatic signals (COLOR VISION) from the eye by the VISUAL CORTEX where they are converted into symbolic representations. Color perception involves numerous neurons, and is influenced not only by the distribution of wavelengths from the viewed object, but also by its background color and brightness contrast at its boundary.
Annotation: do not confuse with COLOR VISION
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Related: Color Vision MeSH
Color Vision Defects MeSH
DeCS ID: 3150
Unique ID: D003118
NLM Classification: WW 150
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Color Perception - Preferred
Concept UI M0004828
Scope note Mental processing of chromatic signals (COLOR VISION) from the eye by the VISUAL CORTEX where they are converted into symbolic representations. Color perception involves numerous neurons, and is influenced not only by the distribution of wavelengths from the viewed object, but also by its background color and brightness contrast at its boundary.
Preferred term Color Perception
Entry term(s) Color Perceptions
Perception, Color
Perceptions, Color



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