@article{010af185bc76404d8bc7224d4bc92658,
title = "Spatial visual function in anomalous trichromats: Is less more?",
abstract = "Color deficiency is a common inherited disorder affecting 8% of Caucasian males with anomalous trichromacy (AT); it is the most common type of inherited color vision deficiency. Anomalous trichromacy is caused by alteration of one of the three cone-opsins{\textquoteright} spectral sensitivity; it is usually considered to impose marked limitations for daily life as well as for choice of occupation. Nevertheless, we show here that anomalous trichromat subjects have superior basic visual functions such as visual acuity (VA), contrast sensitivity (CS), and stereo acuity, compared with participants with normal color vision. Both contrast sensitivity and stereo acuity performance were correlated with the severity of color deficiency. We further show that subjects with anomalous trichromacy exhibit a better ability to detect objects camouflaged in natural gray scale figures. The advantages of color-deficient subjects in spatial vision performance could explain the relatively high prevalence of color-vision polymorphism in humans.",
author = "Ravid Doron and Anna Sterkin and Moshe Fried and Oren Yehezkel and Maria Lev and Michael Belkin and Mordechai Rosner and Solomon, {Arieh S.} and Yossi Mandel and Uri Polat",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Doron et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1371/journal.pone.0209662",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "14",
journal = "PLoS ONE",
issn = "1932-6203",
publisher = "Public Library of Science",
number = "1",
}