On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:55:10 +0100, Tim Lamb wrote:

In message . com,
lid writes
On 26/04/2016 00:21, Mr Macaw wrote:

Simple experiment. A hula hoop around your head, with a coloured bead
slid slowly round it, while you stare straight ahead. You shout out the
colour when you see it.

That would be a couple of degrees then as rods don't detect colour only
cones do that and they are in the centre of your field of view.
Any colour you see in the peripheral field is just made up by your brain.

Hmm. My brain has just made up the blue colour of a folder about 45deg.
off my direct line of sight!

I like to claim good peripheral vision but 200deg. is only *something
there* or movement.

Not with me, I just held up a variety of bottles of pop at just past right angles and could tell which colour was which (I picked them up randomly from behind my back so my brain couldn't "cheat"). I have to wonder where these "studies" get their bull**** from. I simply can't believe I have cones where others don't.

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