Colour vision: putting it in context.
Our perception of a surface's colour depends in a complex way on the colours of surrounding surfaces; this "colour contrast' is linked to the "colour constancy' which is important for object recognition, but in ways more complex than we yet understand.
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Department of Physiology, Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology