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According to the opponent color theory, the perception of color is based on the output of _______ cones, each of them an opponency between _______ colors.

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1. Three cones

2. Two colors

Step-by-step explanation:

  • The opponent process theroy of color vision recommends that our capacity to perceive color is constrained by three receptor complexes with contradicting or opposing activities.
  • These three receptor complexes are as follows:
  • Dark white complex.
  • Blue-yellow complex.
  • Red-green complex.
  • You don't see greenish-red because according to the opponent process theory, the opponent cells can just identify each of these colors at a time.
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