Leo Hurvich
Leo Hurvich · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychologist known for the opponent-process theory of color vision
1910, Malden, Massachusetts, United States — 2009, United States
United States
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Leo Hurvich was an American psychologist who, with his wife and collaborator Dorothea Jameson, revived and quantified the opponent-process theory of color vision. Their hue-cancellation experiments provided decisive evidence that the visual system encodes color in red-green and blue-yellow opponent channels, a cornerstone of modern color science. Hurvich was Jewish and spent much of his career at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Psychologist known for the opponent-process theory of color vision
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