Color Vision:

Nice Web site on color order systems: http://www.colorsystem.com/index.htm

A few links to pdfs of review papers of interest, mostly focused on recent advances or on material neglected in the text click on pdf to download:

Those in Ann. Rev. Neurosci. are fairly compressed and hard to read, other reviews not so designated are mostly less challenging.

A wonderful account by John Mollon of the history of ideas about color vision, especially trichromacy: pdf

Dacey, Ann Rev. Neurosci 2000: Retinal Coding of Color: pdf

Gegenfurtner and Kiper, Ann Rev. Neurosci 2003: Color Vision: pdf

Gegenfurtner, an accessible review of Cortical Mechanisms of Color Vision: pdf

Neitz, introductory review of Molecular Genetics of Color Vision: pdf

Yokoyama, evolution and molecular biology of color vision: pdf

Hot off the press: Mice are natively red-green blind, with only 2 visual pigments, but genetic engineering can now give them 3! pdf

Cortex:

A couple of articles about the neural circuitry underlying receptive fields of neurons in primary visual cortex: Hirsch pdf , Miller pdf

Nice introductory review of the varieties of visual impairment that result from brain damage: pdf

Review of extrastriate visual areas in man and monkey by Tootell: pdf

How the neural representation is efficiently adapted to the statistics of natural scenes (Ann. Rev. Neurosci.): pdf

Physiological evidence for top-down processing in visual cortex: pdf

Object-centered representations in the brain (Olson, Ann. Rev. Neurosci.): pdf

Neural Systems for Face Recognition and Social Communication: Haxby pdf

Doubts as two whether events in primary visual cortex are immediately reflected in conscious awareness:

Rees and Koch pdf, Crick and Koch pdf , Stoerig pdf

Evidence that late-developing components of neural signals are important for awareness (Tanaka): pdf