The theme for this week’s session is ‘New Findings in Color Perception and its Mechanisms’ and will feature the following talks:

• Cone spectral sensitivity measurements in the living human eye using AO-OCT presented by Marcel Trerice Bernucci, Indiana University
• Revealing how color perception and genetics are manifested in cone cells presented by Furu Zhang, Indiana University
• Effect of cone spectral topography on chromatic detection sensitivity presented by Ramkumar Sabesan, University of Washington
• Color perception in pulsed light presented by Christina Schwarz, University of Tübingen
• Psychophysical measures in retinitis pigmentosa patients presented by Julien Fars, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Predicting color vision from luminance matches presented by Kassandra Lee, University of Nevada, Reno
• Using color space metrics to understand color cognition presented by Karen Schloss, University of Wisconsin – Madison
• A Comparison of Two Methods of Hue Scaling presented by Courtney Matera, University of Nevada, Reno
• A study of chromatic contrast sensitivity functions in five colour backgrounds presented by Xu Qiang, Zhejiang University
• Observer variability of CMFs between younger and elder group presented by Ruili He, University of Leeds
• Physically Plausible Spectral Reconstruction presented by Yi-Tun Lin, University of East Anglia

Our moderator for this session will be Manuel Spitschan, Oxford University, Chair of the OSA Color Technical Group.