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Nature 410, 886-887 (19 April 2001) | doi:10.1038/35073736
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Vision: Why do colours fade at the edges?
Andrew Derrington
Abstract
Colour vision is much poorer in peripheral parts of the retina than in the centre. It seems that the usual explanation for that finding is flawed.
In humans and Old World monkeys, good discrimination between colours requires appropriate connections from the different types of photoreceptor in the eye. The process was thought to be compromised in the peripheral parts of the retina.
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