PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Complementary Colors, Extrastriate Cortex, Real Image
22 Feb 2017
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Colour exists as our way of interpreting light waves colour adds to the richness of our visual experience easier to tell things apart aesthetic colour has a purpose beyond adding richness to aesthetics. Evolution of colour vision - why and who. Who has colour vision? not all living things see in colour primates are the only mammals that see in colour dogs and cats see in shades of grey! Colour mixing we process colour similar to how artists mix colour pigments. Primary colours: the three colours that can be combined in various proportions to make every colour in the spectrum. Ts with additive colour mixing physiological evidence for three types of cones. 3rd type of opponent receptor di erentiates bw bright and dim light. Pros of theory explains why the mixing wavelengths of complementary colours appear white can explain why afterimage is the complementary colour.
