On Seeing Reddish Green and Yellowish Blue
- 9 September 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 221 (4615) , 1078-1080
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.221.4615.1078
Abstract
Four color names—red, yellow, green, and blue—can be used singly or combined in pairs to describe all other colors. Orange, for example, can be described as a reddish yellow, cyan as a bluish green, and purple as a reddish blue. Some dyadic color names (such as reddish green and bluish yellow) describe colors that are not normally realizable. By stabilizing the retinal image of the boundary between a pair of red and green stripes (or a pair of yellow and blue stripes) but not their outer edges, however, the entire region can be perceived simultaneously as both red and green (or yellow and blue).This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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