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Nature 395, 845-846 (29 October 1998) | doi:10.1038/27554

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Neurobiology:  In the mind's eye of the beholder

Robert Shapley1

Where is colour — in the world around us or in our minds? Although we view colour as something objective in the world, students of visual perception have known for a long time that to perceive colour we need to make elaborate neural computations.

  1. Robert Shapley is at the Center for Neural Science, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003, USA.
    e-mail: Email: shapley@cns.nyu.edu