Color vision: Almost reason enough for having eyes

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 26-33

  Neitz, Jay ^a   Carroll, Joseph ^a   Neitz, Maureen ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIALS;

NEURAL MECHANISMS;

COLOR VISION;

EID: 0035241333     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.12.1.000026     Document Type: Article

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