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Cells with colour opponency in each of two spatially antagonistic parts of their receptive fields, have been found at various stages of the visual pathways in several animal species1–8. These cells, which are said to have ‘double colour-opponent receptive fields’, are thought to play a major role in the analysis of coloured images by enhancing simultaneous colour contrast2. This stage of information processing was heretofore considered to begin at the level of retinal ganglion cells1–5. Here we report that, in the carp at least, this stage occurs earlier, as we have found double colour-opponent receptive fields among the retinal bipolar cells of this animal.
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Kaneko, A., Tachibana, M. Retinal bipolar cells with double colour-opponent receptive fields. Nature 293, 220–222 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/293220a0
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