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The 39 pages that link to Cone cell, each with the reason it gives.

• Color visionRelated: Reconnects the perception story to its retinal hardware.

• Visible spectrumBroader topic: Three cone classes provide the overlapping sensitivities underlying human color vision.

• Thomas YoungBroader topic: Cone cells are the retinal receptors that correspond most closely to Young’s proposed elements.

• Opponent process theoryRelated: Opponent channels are built from signals originating in cone cells.

• Optic nerveBroader topic: Cone signals also converge onto ganglion cells whose axons form the nerve.

• Additive colorBroader topic: Cone responses provide the visual signals that combined light stimulates.

• Color (visual perception)Related: Three classes of cones provide the main inputs for human color discrimination.

• Color blindnessBroader topic: Color blindness often begins when one cone type or its pigment is altered.

• Photoreceptor cellBroader topic: Cones provide several spectral sensitivities and mediate detailed daylight vision.

• Retinal ganglion cellBroader topic: Cone pathways help ganglion cells convey color and high-acuity information.

• Subtractive colorRelated: Cone responses turn the remaining reflected wavelengths into a perceived color.

• PhototransductionBroader topic: Cones use related phototransduction machinery but differ in sensitivity, speed, and pigment types.

• Retinitis pigmentosaBroader topic: Cone degeneration can later impair central vision and color discrimination.

• Chromatic adaptationBroader topic: Differences among cone responses provide the signals that adaptation recalibrates.

• Rod cellCompared with: Cones work best in brighter light and provide the color and detail rods lack.

• TrichromacyBroader topic: The three cone types are the biological implementation of trichromacy.

• Photopic visionBroader topic: Cone cells provide most of the photoreceptor input during photopic vision.

• OpsinRelated: Different cone opsins give cone classes distinct wavelength sensitivities.

• AfterimageBroader topic: Different cone responses contribute to the color pattern left by prolonged viewing.

• Fovea (retina)Related: Cones are densely packed in the fovea and provide its detailed, color-rich vision.

• Primary colorsRelated: Three cone classes underlie the trichromatic model of human color perception.

• Color perceptionBroader topic: Cone cells provide the wavelength-sensitive signals used in human color vision.

• Peripheral visionRelated: Cones become sparse away from the center, limiting peripheral detail and color.

• RedRelated: Cone responses help the visual system produce the experience of red.

• AchromatopsiaBroader topic: Impaired cone function is central to congenital achromatopsia.

• Color matchingBroader topic: Cone responses provide the physiological signals whose equality produces a perceived match.

• Night visionCompared with: Cones lose effectiveness sooner than rods as illumination declines.

• ColorfulnessRelated: Cone responses provide the chromatic signals from which colorfulness is judged.

• TetrachromacyNarrower topic: Tetrachromacy begins with four distinct cone responses rather than the usual three.

• Young–Helmholtz theoryRelated: The theory’s three receptor types correspond broadly to cone classes in the retina.

• Christine Ladd-FranklinBroader topic: Cone function provides the physiological basis for the color distinctions her theory addresses.

• GreenRelated: Green perception depends on the combined responses of three cone classes.

• Purkinje effectRelated: Their longer-wavelength sensitivity dominates before falling illumination shifts vision toward rods.

• DichromacyNarrower topic: Dichromacy usually results when one of the three cone classes is absent or nonfunctional.

• Human visual systemBroader topic: Cone types and their dense packing in the fovea set the limits of daylight vision.

• IndigoRelated: Cone responses help produce the perception of indigo hues.

• Yellow (color)Related: Cone responses, rather than single wavelength detectors, underlie perceived yellow.

• MonochromacyNarrower topic: Monochromacy follows when only one cone class functions or cone signaling is absent.

• Stargardt diseaseRelated: Macular injury particularly affects cone-mediated central vision.