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  2. Color psychology - Wikipedia

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    Color psychology is the study of colors and hues as a determinant of human behavior. Color influences perceptions that are not obvious, such as the taste of food. Colors have qualities that can cause certain emotions in people. [1] How color influences individuals may differ depending on age, gender, and culture. [2]

  3. Purkinje effect - Wikipedia

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    An animated sequence of simulated appearances of a red flower (of a zonal geranium) and background foliage under photopic, mesopic, and scotopic conditions. The Purkinje effect or Purkinje phenomenon (Czech: [ˈpurkɪɲɛ] ⓘ; sometimes called the Purkinje shift, often pronounced / p ər ˈ k ɪ n dʒ i /) [1] is the tendency for the peak luminance sensitivity of the eye to shift toward the ...

  4. Opponent process - Wikipedia

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    Hue cancellation experiments start with a color (e.g. yellow) and attempt to determine how much of the opponent color (e.g. blue) of one of the starting color's components must be added to reach the neutral point. [12] [13] In 1959, Gunnar Svaetichin and MacNichol [14] recorded from the retina of fish and reported of three distinct types of cells:

  5. Opponent-process theory - Wikipedia

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    Opponent-process theory suggests that color perception is controlled by the activity of three opponent systems. In the theory, he postulated about three independent receptor types which all have opposing pairs: white and black, blue and yellow, and red and green. These three pairs produce combinations of colors for us through the opponent process.

  6. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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    The color spectrum clearly exists at a physical level of wavelengths (inter al.), humans cross-linguistically tend to react most saliently to the primary color terms (a primary motive of Bornstein's work and vision science generally) as well as select similar exemplars of these primary color terms, and lastly comes the process of linguistic ...

  7. MLB playoffs: Yoshinobu Yamamoto delivers biggest start of ...

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    The biggest test of the game for Yamamoto was always going to be the Dodger killer, Fernando Tatis Jr. Tatis was a thorn in the Dodgers’ side all series, with three homers off L.A. pitchers and ...

  8. Stroop effect - Wikipedia

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    [1] A basic task that demonstrates this effect occurs when there is a mismatch between the name of a color (e.g., "blue", "green", or "red") and the color it is printed in (i.e., the word "red" printed in blue ink instead of red ink, thus red). When asked to name the color of the word it takes longer and is more prone to errors when the color ...

  9. Fact or Fiction: Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers are ...

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    A reminder: The Sixers just granted Embiid a three-year, $192 million contract extension, which will pay him almost $70 million — one-third of the projected salary cap — at the age of 34 in ...