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It now seems certain, as suggested by THOMAS YOUNG (1) some 175 years ago, that human color vision is mediated by three types of receptors, maximally sensitive at different regions of the visible spectrum, but broadly overlapping in responsivity. Although the underlying photopigments have not been isolated, data from microspectrophotometry (2, 3, 4), reflection densitometry (5, 6) and psychophysics (7, 8, 9, 10), converge on estimating the peak sensitivites at about 435, 530, and 562 nanometers (nm). These data also suggest that the shapes of the spectral absorption curves are similar when plotted on a frequency scale. The existence of three receptors of this kind is, of course, consistent with the trivariance of color mixture. The relation between perceived hue and receptor activity, however, appears to be less simple.
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Wooten, B.R., Werner, J.S. (1978). Opponent Chromatic Mechanisms Predict Hue Naming. In: Cool, S.J., Smith, E.L. (eds) Frontiers in Visual Science. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35397-3_19
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