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Yellow-Blue

Written by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated September 2025
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Verified for the 2026 examโ€ขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated September 2025

Definition

Yellow-blue is one of the pairs of opposing retinal processes proposed by the opponent-process theory of color vision. It refers to the perception and processing of colors in terms of a yellow-blue continuum, where yellow and blue are perceived as opposites.

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