Nevin J. Miller, III is an intereting case. He says he is color blind.
I would agree with him, but he is *different*. His color blindness is
not a simple red-green or blue-yellow case. The color that he has
the most difficult with is purple. He confuses or mixes red-blue and
yellow-green. His special circumstance has lead to an interesting result.
As you know the opponent-process model says the stimulation by one color
inhibits another. The special correlational nature of the stimulation is
sent to the back top of the visual cortex for processing into color
perception. The correlationald opponent-processing model using wavelets
suggested to me that it was possible in principle to see colors you were
missing if you were color blind.
When the opportunity arose, I showed Nevin Miller the subjective color
illusion. By rotating a black and white disk in florescent lightand timing
the speed carefully one can see colors. For the first time in Nevin's life
he reported seeing a color that he has never seen before. It was to me
a bright blue-purple.
Nevin has reported a willness to be a subject. I suspect that by using
positron emission tomography that his report of purple stimulation will
be identical to controls. Nevin lives in the Allentown, Pennsylvania
area. Are you interested in doing the research?
Ron Blue rcb1 at lex.lccc.edu
