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The theory that human color vision depends on three receptors, a "blue" receptor, a "green" receptor, and a "red" receptor.  2, fiche 1, Anglais, - Young%2DHelmholtz%20theory

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Note: Term defined in a specialized glossary of psychometrics.  3, fiche 1, Anglais, - Young%2DHelmholtz%20theory

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The theory that visual sensation stems from two independent receptor systems in the retina, one said to be composed of rods and the other of cones, the former mediating achromatic sensations at very low levels of intensity, the latter mediating vision at higher levels of intensity and capable of distinguishing colors.  2, fiche 2, Anglais, - duplicity%20theory

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théorie de la duplicité. [...] Parinaud [...] et von Kries [...] attribuèrent la vision photopique de l'homme aux cônes rétiniens [...] et la vision scotopique aux bâtonnets [...]  1, fiche 2, Français, - th%C3%A9orie%20de%20la%20duplicit%C3%A9

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in vision, the theory that a special dominant receptor exists for brightness vision and that chromatic vision is mediated by receptors which modulate the response of the dominant receptor.  1, fiche 3, Anglais, - dominator%2Dmodulator%20theory

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