Cone Archives - Knowing Neurons

Kate Fehlhaber June 22, 2016June 30, 2017 Behavior, Blue, Brain, Color, Cone, Green, Hue, Mantis Shrimp, Nanometer, Photoreceptor, Physiology, Rainbow, Receptor, Red, Scientist, See, Sight, Spectral discrimination task, Vision, Yellow

The Spectacularly Colorful World of the Mantis Shrimp

Our eyes contain millions of color-sensitive cells, called cones, which maximally respond to red, green, and blue light. With just these three types of color receptors, we can see the… Read More

Brain Basics Sensation and Perception

Joel Frohlich September 30, 2015June 29, 2022 Color, Color Vision, Cone, Cones, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Green, Mars, NASA, Opponent Process Theory, Perception, Pluto, Tetrachromat, Trichromatic, Vision

Seeing Invisible Colors: Part II

In a recent Knowing Neurons piece, we explored the exotic visual abilities of other animals, while lamenting the limitations of human color vision. In this article, we stretch those limits… Read More

Brain Basics Sensation and Perception

Joel Frohlich July 1, 2015March 5, 2017 Blue, Cataract, Color, Cone, Eye, Frank Jackson, Gene therapy, Green, Lens, Light, Mantis Shrimp, Perception, Photoreceptor, Red, Retina, Ultraviolet, UV, Vision

Seeing Invisible Colors

What would the world be like without color? Imagine you are a neurophysiologist, who studies color perception. You know that light is a wave and that humans perceive color according… Read More

Now Available in Trichromatic Vision Knowing Neurons

Brain Basics Did You Know?Neuroscience Art Sensation and Perception

knowingneurons July 10, 2014March 5, 2017 Brain, Color, Color Blindness, Colorblind, Cone, Dichromat, Eye, Opsin, Photoreceptor, Photoreceptors, Retina, Trichromatic Theory, Vision, Wavelength

Now Available in Trichromatic Color!

“What is color?” What a good question! The answer is a bit tricky, but it starts with light. Color is the visual perception of different wavelengths of light reflecting off… Read More