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LAST year, one of us (E. N. W.1) demonstrated that a small central area of the fovea was unable to discriminate blue-green colours and, in other ways also, appeared to have the characteristics of the tritanopic form of colour-blindness. The observations were made with small painted test spots suitably fixated on the foveal centre. The results aroused considerable interest and led to correspondence in Nature2,3,4,5, in which it was pointed out that König6, some fifty years ago, had noted that his foveal centre was tritanopic: his observation, however, did not appear to have been generally accepted7.
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WILLMER, E., WRIGHT, W. Colour Sensitivity of the Fovea Centralis. Nature 156, 119–121 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156119a0
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