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9 - Individual differences in color vision

from Part III - Development of and differences in color vision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

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Michael A. Webster
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Andrew J. Elliot ,
Mark D. Fairchild  and
Anna Franklin
Andrew J. Elliot
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University of Rochester, New York
Mark D. Fairchild
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Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
Anna Franklin
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University of Sussex
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Handbook of Color Psychology , pp. 197 - 215
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