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The inverted colour space of vampires

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Karel Kranda
Karel Kranda
Affiliation:
Psychophysiological Laboratory, Universitats Krankenhaus Benjamin Franklin, D-14057 Berlin, [email protected]
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Abstract

Palmer's attempt to dust off Locke's construct of “inverted spectrum” is discussed here to examine its plausibility. Perceptual inversion could be fulfilled by adopting the notion of “inverted trichromacy” rather than by the proposed existence of “red-green reversed trichromats.” Although the former alternative conforms to a hypothetical world of vampires, it fails to conform to the realities of genetics and neuroscience.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 959
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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