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Color Perception comes from the Brain

10/26/2005 11:18 AM

First-ever images of living human retinas have yielded a surprise about how we perceive our world. Researchers at the University of Rochester have found that the number of color-sensitive cones in the human retina differs dramatically among people—by up to 40 times—yet people appear to perceive colors the same way.

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Genetic Differences

10/26/2005 11:28 AM

Looking for a genetic basis to differences in color perception could lead the researchers to some interesting, but politically incorrect, conclusions. You have to wonder, for example, if the inhabitants of desert regions can perceive different shades of brown more clearly than people who live in the Arctic. Then agan, any differences that are found probably have as much of an environmental component as a genetic one.

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