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Age and illuminance effects in the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test Kenneth Knoblauch, Felicia Saunders, Mihoko Kusuda, Roger Hynes, Marvin Podgor, Kent E. Higgins, and Francisco M. de Monasterio Seventy-five normal volunteers (20-78 yr) were tested on the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test at each of five illuminance levels. Each cap score distribution was analyzed by fitting a two-cycle sine wave whose amplitude and phase characterize the polarity of the error distribution and its axis. Analysis of these parameters reveals a similarity between tritanlike defects in older groups and those of younger groups at lower illuminance levels. These data are also useful for specifying age norms for the polarity of the error distribution. 1. Introduction tions, and each concluded that the relation of the two- With the advent of widely available low-cost com- cycle component to the zero-order component (mean puting facilities, a number of computer programs and error) was a useful index of bipolarity. Kitaharas algorithms have been published for the analysis of the method has been simplified by directly computing the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue (FM 100-hue) 1 8 mean error and the amplitude and phase of the two- test. - cycle 3 6 Interpretations of the results of this test are based on component. Methods for evaluating the sta- the total error score and the degree of polarity of