In humans, there are three types of cone cell that are responsible for the early stages of colour vision. Each type of cone cell is maximally absorbent in a different part of the spectrum ...

Living Colour, a documentary from The Nature of Things, delves into our vivid vision to uncover the secrets of colour. Here are a few things we learn in the film. Colour is an illusion ...

Color vision may actually work like a colorized version of a black-and-white movie, a new study suggests. Cone cells, which sense red, green or blue light, detect white more often than colors ...

(Medical Xpress)—A possible link between colour vision and the development of myopia - or near-sightedness - has been discovered by an international group, including a researcher from The ...

Colour vision may have evolved in primates to help them pick up on changes in blood and oxygen concentrations beneath the skin’s surface, giving access to emotional cues, a new analysis proposes.

Tracey finds out what it's like to be colour blind and why there may be some women with superhuman colour vision, who can see more colours than the rest of us. Series of five programmes.

They found that fish deep-sea fish had expanded a certain gene called rhodopsin which gave them this remarkable vision. Photopigments in the cone cells found in the retina give vertebrates colour ...

Normal human colour vision depends on three types of cone photoreceptors (short-, medium- and long-wavelength sensitive — S, M and L) that have different but overlapping spectral sensitivities.