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In primates, information about color passes from the eye to the visual cortex via the parvocellular laminae of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN). We know this from the work of Schiller, Logothetis and Charles (1990) and of Merigan (1989) who compared the visual performance of Rhesus monkeys, as tested behaviorally, before and after lesions were made to either a region that retinotopically included all the parvocellular laminae and none of the magnocellular laminae, or vice versa, or both. Any interruption to the pathways via the parvocellular laminae virtually abolished color sensitivity, whereas interruption of the pathways via the magnocellular pathways produced no detectable deficit. They also showed that fine pattern and texture information likewise required the parvocellular laminae, but not the magnocellular laminae.
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Rodieck, R.W. (1991). Which Cells Code for Color?. In: Valberg, A., Lee, B.B. (eds) From Pigments to Perception. NATO ASI Series, vol 203. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3718-2_10
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