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Asymmetry among Hering primaries thwarts the Inverted spectrum argument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Robert E. MacLaury
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 maclaury@sas.upenn.edu www.sas.upenn.edu/~maclaury/
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Purest points of Hering's six primary colors reside at different levels of lightness such that inversion of each hue pair would be detectable in subjects' choice of foci on the Munsell array. An inverted spectrum would not impose the isomorphism constraint on a contrast of red-green or yellow-blue, whatever we conclude about inference in functionalism.

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© 1999 Cambridge University Press