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  2. Color vision - Wikipedia

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    Color processing in the extended V4 occurs in millimeter-sized color modules called globs. [30] [31] This is the part of the brain in which color is first processed into the full range of hues found in color space. [37] [30] [31] Anatomical studies have shown that neurons in extended V4 provide input to the inferior temporal lobe. "IT" cortex ...

  3. Impossible color - Wikipedia

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    Impossible colors are colors that do not appear in ordinary visual functioning. Different color theories suggest different hypothetical colors that humans are incapable of perceiving for one reason or another, and fictional colors are routinely created in popular culture. While some such colors have no basis in reality, phenomena such as cone ...

  4. Visual system - Wikipedia

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    In between the six layers are smaller cells that receive information from the K cells (color) in the retina. The neurons of the LGN then relay the visual image to the primary visual cortex (V1) which is located at the back of the brain (posterior end) in the occipital lobe in and close to the calcarine sulcus.

  5. Colour centre - Wikipedia

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    The colour centre is a region in the brain primarily responsible for visual perception and cortical processing of colour signals received by the eye, which ultimately results in colour vision.

  6. Opponent process - Wikipedia

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    This was termed a chromaticity cell. A third cell – also a chromaticity cell – responded with hyperpolarization at fairly short wavelengths, peaking about 490 nm, and with depolarization at wavelengths longer than about 610 nm. Svaetichin and MacNichol called the chromaticity cells yellow–blue and red–green opponent color cells.

  7. Opponent-process theory - Wikipedia

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    The colors in each pair oppose each other. Red-green receptors cannot send messages about both colors at the same time. This theory also explains negative afterimages; once a stimulus of a certain color is presented, the opponent color is perceived after the stimulus is removed because the anabolic and catabolic processes are reversed. For ...

  8. Cone cell - Wikipedia

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    The difference in the signals received from the three cone types allows the brain to perceive a continuous range of colors through the opponent process of color vision. Rod cells have a peak sensitivity at 498 nm, roughly halfway between the peak sensitivities of the S and M cones. All of the receptors contain the protein photopsin. Variations ...

  9. Young–Helmholtz theory - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz assumed that the eye's retina consists of three different kinds of light receptors for red, green and blue.. The Young–Helmholtz theory (based on the work of Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz in the 19th century), also known as the trichromatic theory, is a theory of trichromatic color vision – the manner in which the visual system gives rise to ...