RE: ATM - Color sensitivity of the eye

[tmasnyk@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu (Taras Masnyk)]

>kf wrote:
>
>Taras Masnyk  wrote:...
>...  paragraph perpetuates a common misconception. It implys that
>that cones measure both intensity _and_ wavelength and transmit this to the
brain...
>

I did not mean to imply that cones "see" color, but did not wish to bore the
group with the considerable intricacies of the neurophysiology of vision.
Color is "detected" by the brain at a number of sites, most prominently in
visual association cortex, but the whole issue of primary visual cortex,
secondary and tertiary cortex, complex cells, hyper complex cells, "color"
cells, "motion" cells, etc., belongs in e-mail or on some sci.neuro.amateur
(or something like that)list.  Suffice it to say, that as stated by kf,
cones merely encode the information allowing us to detect variations in
color, and that this has to do with the varying response of cones to wavelength.

mud-fud