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Wavelength Discrimination and the Theory of Colour Vision

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Physiology of the Eye

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The problem of colour vision has attracted the interest and excited the speculation not only of physiologists but of physicists, psychologists, anatomists, philosophers, and poets with the inevitable result that the subject has abounded with theories; in the present treatment we shall confine ourselves to the main experimental findings and show how they are related to the Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory.

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    Hugh Davson DSc (Lond) (Visiting Professor of Physiology, Honorary Research Fellow, Fellow)

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    Hugh Davson DSc (Lond) (Visiting Professor of Physiology, Honorary Research Fellow, Fellow)

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    Hugh Davson DSc (Lond) (Visiting Professor of Physiology, Honorary Research Fellow, Fellow)

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Davson, H. (1990). Wavelength Discrimination and the Theory of Colour Vision. In: Physiology of the Eye. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09997-9_15

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