Question

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

Answer 1

1. Three cones

2. Two colors

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.