If you stare at a red patch and then look at a red apple, will your experience of the redness of the apple be stronger or weaker?

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3 September, 09:44

If you stare at a red patch and then look at a red apple, will your experience of the redness of the apple be stronger or weaker?

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Mollie Sherman · Answer 1

If you stare at a red patch and then look at a red apple, your experience of the redness of the apple will be weaker.

The reason is because staring at red patch fatigues red portion of red-green channel. Hering’s opponent-process model predicts this situation. The theory was first developed by Ewald Hering.