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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2017

Vision: Two Speeds in the Retina.

Richard H Masland

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. High-Fidelity Backpropagation through Primate Foveal Cones.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
    Article
  3. HIGH-FIDELITY BACKPROPAGATION THROUGH PRIMATE FOVEAL CONES.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  4. In Vivo Cone Photoreceptor Topography of the Human Foveola.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025
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  5. The Rapid Synthesis of Integral Stimuli.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025
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  8. Retinorecipient areas in the common marmoset (Frontiers in neural circuits · 2023
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Richard H MaslandDepartments of Ophthalmology and Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address: Richard_Masland@meei.harvard.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The central (foveal) retina takes about 30 milliseconds longer to signal to the brain than the peripheral retina. In the natural world, a 30 millisecond delay could have real consequences. Why did evolution do it this way?

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RetinaVision, OcularAnimalsFovea CentralisPrimates

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.