Wavelength information processing versus color perception: Evidence from blindsight and color-blind sight

Color Vision: Perspectives from Different Disciplines

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 131-148

  Stoerig, Petra ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110806984.131     Document Type: Chapter

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