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A study of the normal colour vision of art students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Stephen R. Cobb
Stephen R. Cobb
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Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow
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The paper reports an attempt to use the Pickford-Nicolson anomaloscope on an unselected sample of all art students in 1 year's intake in a School of Art, and to compare their colour vision with that of an unselected control group of non-art students.

There is evidence that male first year School of Art students match a yellow with a mixture of red and green containing slightly more green than the male control group of the same age. It would seem possible that there is an age effect for women matching green and blue with turquoise whereby the older women required more green in the match.

Apart from these two points there appears to be no significant difference between the groups studied.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , April 1972 , pp. 153 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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