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Neurons show their true colours

How do we tell red from green? Work on the primate retina shows how neural circuitry combines signals from individual cone photoreceptor cells to provide the basic building blocks for colour vision. See Article p.673

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Demb, J., Brainard, D. Neurons show their true colours. Nature 467, 670–671 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467670b

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