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To better understand the functions of the color-opponent and broadband channels that originate in the primate retina, we examined the visual capacities of monkeys following their selective disruption. Color vision, fine but not coarse form vision and stereopsis are severely impaired in the absence of the color-opponent channel whereas motion and flicker perception are impaired at high but not low temporal frequencies in the absence of the broad-band channel. Much as the rods and cones of the retina can be thought of as extending the range of vision in the intensity domain, we propose that the color-opponent channel extends visual capacities in the spatial and wavelength domains whereas the broad-band channel extends them in the temporal domain.
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Schiller, P.H. (1991). The Color-Opponent and Broad-Band Channels of the Primate Visual System. 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_14
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