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Those who study the perceptual or psychophysical behavior of intact humans constantly raise questions about the implications of the psychophysical data for physiology, and, at this level, the answers to such questions are necessarily inferences, deductions, or hypotheses. For evidence that our inferences and hypotheses about underlying mechanisms are, at best, confirmable, or, at least, plausible, we look to the ever growing accumulation of information provided by the researches of physiologists and biochemists.
From the Department of Psychology, New York University.
The research project of which this study form a parts is being supported by grants G-4848 from the National Science Foundation and B-1721 from the National Institutes of Health.
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Hurvich-Jameson, D., Hurvich, L.M. (1961). Opponent-Colors Theory and Physiological Mechanisms. In: Jung, R., Kornhuber, H. (eds) Neurophysiologie und Psychophysik des Visuellen Systems / The Visual System: Neurophysiology and Psychophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22221-8_19
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