Mostly Biomathematics Lunchtime Seminar

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Neural computation of color

Speaker: Robert Shapley, NYU

Location: Warren Weaver Hall 1314

Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 12:45 p.m.

Synopsis:

Color is important in human vision – for finding and identifying visual targets and for remembering them. Color perception is understood better than most behaviors in terms of neural mechanisms. The two lectures are about neural computations of color.

We will discuss Light and Color, Energy Spectra of light sources, Reflectance Spectra of objects, Metamers and color matching, Cone Photoreceptors, color computations in the Retina, for example, Single-opponent cells in Retina