Colour vision: the wonder of hue.
Understanding the brain requires a kind of thinking outside the main tradition of natural science: the biology has to be linked to something intangible, a private experience. Physiologists have recently recorded from neurons that promise to help make the link in the case of colour experience.
Neitz
Jay
J
Medical College of Wisconsin, The Eye Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53185, USA. jneitz@mcw.edu
Neitz
Maureen
M
D003116:Color; D003118:Color Perception; D005829:Geniculate Bodies / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology