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Colour Perception and Retinal Neurons – Attempting to Map the Human Brain
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Colour Perception and Retinal Neurons – Attempting to Map the Human Brain

September 17, 2013 QuarX Leave a comment

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Colour Perception – Eye of the Beholder

Seeing the World in glorious colours is central to our lives.  Colours shape the way we behave.  They affect our mood and our perception.  They can influence the way we interact and respond to social and environmental stimuli, whether we are directly aware of it, or through subliminal awareness of our external world.  Again, it is one of those things that most people take for granted in everyday life.

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