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The varieties of color vision deficiency are conventionally categorized as (1) anomalous trichromacy, (2) dichromacy, and (3) monochromacy. They are, respectively, three-variable, two-variable, and one-variable color vision systems, and their nature is best understood in the framework of a theoretical quantitative opponent-colors model that represents the way the normal three-variable color vision mechanism is organized. The normal trichromatic system is constituted of three independent color systems. Two are chromatic, red/green and yellow/blue, and one is achromatic, white/black.
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Hurvich, L.M. (1988). Color Vision, Deficiencies. In: Sensory System I. Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6647-6_8
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