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Default Peripheral vision in cats and humans

On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 10:05:49 UTC+1, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:14:27 +0100, dennis@home wrote:

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.


Funny how my eyesight and everyone in the class worked with colour round there. The only thing you don't pick up colour with is very low light levels.


you'll have to define seeing and looking.
See if you can read a newspaper out of the corner of yuor eye if you can;t yuo're not really seeing are you.