23/04/2007 18:27Pigments de cônes_VNS-2006-0013_VienotSerraultPardo_SiteWeb 1 VIÉNOT F, SERREAULT L., PARDO FERNANDEZ P., 2006, Convergence of experimental multiple Rayleigh matches to peak L- and M- photopigment sensitivity estimates, Visual Neuroscience, 23: 419-427. Convergence of experimental multiple Rayleigh matches to peak L- and M- photopigment sensitivity estimates FRANÇOISE VIÉNOT 1 , LUCILE SERREAULT 2 and PEDRO PARDO FERNANDEZ 3 1 Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CRCDG, Paris, France 2 Université Paris-Sud, MST Optique physiologique, Optique de contact et Optométrie, Orsay, France 3 Universidad de Extremadura, Departamento de Física, Badajoz, Spain Corresponding author Françoise Viénot Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Centre de Recherches et de Restauration des Documents Graphiques 36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire F-75005 Paris France vienot@mnhn.fr Tel: + 33 1 40 79 53 17 Fax: + 33 1 40 79 53 12 Abstract Shift in the wavelength of peak sensitivity of the cone photopigments is a major cause of inter-individual variations in the Rayleigh match. Normal colour observers performed