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ACCORDING to Helmholtz's theory of colour vision, luminosity is caused by the summed excitations of the three kinds of receptors. Granit1, however, suggests that the luminosity is caused by a special type of receptor, the dominators, whereas the other (two) types (the modulators) only give the colour to the observed objects.
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Granit, R., Nature, 151, 11 (1943).
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de Vries, Hl., J. Opt. Soc. Amer., 36 (Feb. 1946).
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DE VRIES, H. Luminosity Curve of Trichromats. Nature 157, 736–737 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157736b0
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