Color vision in the comb frequency domain

In 1982, Horace Barlow considered the question of human trichromacy in the context of information theory: according to the Sampling Theorem, three types of receptors covering the visible spectrum (400- -700 nm) might be sufficient to reconstruct the color signal. Although Barlow was led to reject th...

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Main Authors: VALÈRIE BONNARDEL, FRANCISCO J. VARELA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2003-01-01
Series:Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602003000100011