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Color blobs in cortical areas V1 and V2 of the new world monkey Callithrix jacchus, revealed by non-differential optical imaging.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 6 Jun 2012
Valverde Salzmann Matthias F, Bartels Andreas, Logothetis Nikos K, Schüz Almut
Abstract excerpt
Color vision is reserved to only few mammals, such as Old World monkeys and humans. Most Old World monkeys are trichromats. Among them, macaques were shown to exhibit functional domains of color-selectivity, in areas V1 and V2 of the visual cortex. Such color domains have not yet been shown in New World monkeys. In marmosets a sex-linked dichotomy results in dichromatic and trichromatic genotypes, rendering most...
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