PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Color Vision, Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Lightdark
19 Apr 2020
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Primates: have three types of cone in the eye that are used for color vision. Introduction: we don"t need to have millions of color receptors to deal w/ every conceivable color in the world. Instead, we just need a few receptor types whose activity can be combined in various proportions to make every conceivable color. In short: we process color stimuli similar to how artists mix color pigments. The three primary colors can be combined in various proportions to make every color in the spectrum. Primary colours: base colors: they can"t be reduced into other colors, no colors that can be combined to make primary colors. If you made color circle using additive color mixing, you"d find that the complementary colors are also different: The complementary color for: blue is yellow, red is bluish green, green is reddish purple, with additive color mixing, whenever you mix a primary color with its complementary color, you get grey or white.
