In a short course of 8 hours some basic aspects of colour vision will be dealt with. The first two hours will be spent on the technical descriptions of colour (the CIE System) such that a proper stimulus description is ensured. A very simple zone theoretical model of colour vision will be taken to explain baisc colour vision phenomena. Next the discussion will be opened on the possibly modular character of colour vision, and special attention will be paid to a series of isoluminance experiments. In the next two hours color constancy will be dealt with and the final two hours will be used to deal with the use of colour for displaying information.

Charles De Weert, Master's degree in Experimental Physics at the Utrecht State University, The Netherlands in 1968, PhD thesis on 'Binocular Colour and Brightness Combination' in Cognitive Science in 1976 (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Supervisor Professor dr.W.Levelt). Since 1987 he is Director of the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI), a Graduate School in Cognitive Sciences, with about 50 senior research fellows and about 50 PhD students. He is a full professor in Psychophysics at the Nijmegen University and his main lines of research are (still) in Colour Vision and in Binocular Vision.