Color center
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The color center is a region in the human brain responsible for processing colour. It consists of two subdivisions, an anterior one, called V4α and a posterior one, called V4. The structural organization of the colour centre was analysed using fMRI.

The term color center can also refer to an anionic vacancy in a crystal filled by one or more electrons, usually called an F-Centre.

Bilateral damage of V4 can cause total colour blindness (achromatopsia).

References

• Bartels, A. & S. Zeki (2000). "The architecture of the colour centre in the human visual brain: new results and a review". European Journal of Neuroscience 12 (1): 172–193. doi:10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00905.x. 
• C. J. Lueck, S. Zeki, K. J. Friston, M.-P. Deiber, P. Cope, V. J. Cunningham, A. A. Lammertsma, C. Kennard, R. S. J. Frackowiak (1989). "The colour centre in the cerebral cortex of man". Nature 340: 386–389. doi:10.1038/340386a0. 

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