In a HCI course I took, we also talked about how rods are better for detecting movement, and about how cones are located primarily in or near the fovea, while rods are located throughout the retina, but not in/near the fovea, so we're much better at detecting movement than detecting color in our peripheral vision.
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My friend and I actually did an experiment a while back where we would bring a object from out of vision slowly into peripheral vision, and we actually had pretty bad predictions about what color it was. I think our perception of color at our peripheral vision is just our brain filling in that information from the surrounding colors.
In a HCI course I took, we also talked about how rods are better for detecting movement, and about how cones are located primarily in or near the fovea, while rods are located throughout the retina, but not in/near the fovea, so we're much better at detecting movement than detecting color in our peripheral vision.
My friend and I actually did an experiment a while back where we would bring a object from out of vision slowly into peripheral vision, and we actually had pretty bad predictions about what color it was. I think our perception of color at our peripheral vision is just our brain filling in that information from the surrounding colors.