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In vision, the proportion of photons at different wavelengths in the visible spectrum which are reflected by a given object in the visual field. Spectral reflectance is the inverse of spectral absorption.
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(2009). Spectral Reflectance. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_5565
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