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Mixed with the two classes of
double-opponent cells (red-
green and yellow-blue) were
ordinary broad-band, center-
surround cells. Again, these
broadband cells differed from
cells in the upper geniculate
layers and from cells in 4Cß in
having several times larger
center sizes. Blobs also contain
cells that are indistinguishable
from geniculate type 2 cells,
resembling double-opponent
cells but lacking the receptive-
field surround.
Margaret Livingstone and I
have proposed that the blobs
represent a branch of the visual
pathway that is devoted to
"color", using the word broadly
to include blacks, whites, and
grays. This system seems to
separate off from the rest of the
visual path either in the lateral
geniculate body or in layer 4 of
the striate cortex. (The
geniculate probably projects
directly but weakly to the blobs.
It seems likely that layer 4Cß
also projects to them, and it
may well form their main
input. Whether 4Ca projects to
them is not clear.) Most blob
cells seem to require border
contrast in order to give
responses at all: either
luminous-intensity borders, in
the case of the broad-band,
center-surround cells or color-
contrast borders, in the case of
the double-opponent cells
would respond. As I argued
earlier, this amounts to saying
that these cells play a part in
color constancy.
If blob cells are involved in
color constancy, they cannot
be carrying out the computation
exactly as Land first envisioned
it, by making a separate
comparison between a region
and its surround for each of the
cone wavebands. Instead they
would seem to be doing a
Hering-like comparison: of red-
greenness in one region with
red-greenness in the surround,
and the same for yellow-
blueness and for intensity. But
the two ways of handling color-
-r, g, and b on the one hand and
b-w, r-g, and y-b on the other--
are really equivalent.