These are some examples of color-opponent mechanisms from the Opponent-Process Theory of color vision. To simplify things, you can think of these mechanisms as representing the photoreceptor input to the center region of a ganglion-cell receptive field. To get more important information about Opponent-Process Theory, come to class.
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Updated July 8, 2000.