Opponent process
Proceso oponente
- Date
- c. 1892 · confidence low
- Place
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Credited to
- Ewald Hering
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Opponent-process theory explains color vision by proposing that the human visual system processes cone signals antagonistically, through three opponent channels: red-green, blue-yellow and luminance.
What it led to
- modern understanding of color perception
- diagnosis and study of color blindness
- design of color spaces such as CIE Lab
- computational models of human vision