Here’s your color and vision article for the week from Dr. Color’s assistant (via the good people over at LiveScience.com).

The first images ever made of retinas in living people reveal surprising variation from one person to the next. Yet somehow our perceptions don’t vary as might be expected.

Imaging thousands of cells responsible for detecting color in the deepest layer of the eye, scientists found that our eyes are wired differently. Yet we all — with the exception of the color blind — identify colors similarly.

The results suggest that the brain plays an even more significant role than thought in deciding what we see.