PSYB51H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hermann Von Helmholtz, Trichromacy, Color Vision
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The perception of colour: colour is not a physical property of things in the world; it is the creation of our minds. Basic principles of colour perception: colour is not a physical property, but it is related to a physical property. Mixing wavelengths does not change the physical wavelengths: colour mixture is a mental event, not a change in the physics of light, 2. 19th century by thomas young and hermann von helmholtz. Some cells in the retinal and lgn ganglion cells are excited by the l-cone onset in their center and inhibited by. M-cone onsets in their surround: named because different sources of chromatic information are pitted against each other, physiology, complicated but generally, s-cone signals go through the koniocellular laters in the. Lgn: m- and l-cone opponent signals are mostly found in the parvocellular layers, a different ganglion cell helps to keep track of day and night, circadian referring to cells in the magnocellular layers of the.
