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7 - Emergence and early development of color vision and color perception

from Part III - Development of and differences in color vision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

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Marc H. Bornstein
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Andrew J. Elliot ,
Mark D. Fairchild  and
Anna Franklin
Andrew J. Elliot
Affiliation:
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. 149 - 179
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