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ALTHOUGH some references were made to visual investigations carried out for the Forces during the War, the International Conference on Colour Vision held at Cambridge during July 28–August 2 was concerned mainly with the fundamental problem of how the visual mechanism works and, in particular, with the apparatus by which differences of colour are perceived.
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STILES, W. Mechanism of Colour Vision. Nature 160, 664–666 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160664a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160664a0
