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Vision science: Seeing without seeing

There is more to the eye than rods and cones — the discovery of a third photoreceptor is rewriting the visual rulebook.

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Lok, C. Vision science: Seeing without seeing. Nature 469, 284–285 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/469284a

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