Color-discrimination threshold determination using pseudoisochromatic test plates

Front Psychol. 2014 Nov 27:5:1376. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01376. eCollection 2014.

Abstract

We produced a set of pseudoisochromatic plates for determining individual color-difference thresholds to assess test performance and test properties, and analyzed the results. We report a high test validity and classification ability for the deficiency type and severity level [comparable to that of the fourth edition of the Hardy-Rand-Rittler (HRR) test]. We discuss changes of the acceptable chromatic shifts from the protan and deutan confusion lines along the CIE xy diagram, and the high correlation of individual color-difference thresholds and the red-green discrimination index. Color vision was tested using an Oculus HMC anomaloscope, a Farnsworth D15, and an HRR test on 273 schoolchildren, and 57 other subjects with previously diagnosed red-green color-vision deficiency.

Keywords: color measurement; color perception; color vision; color-vision defects; color-vision deficiency; psychophysics; vision system.