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FOR theories of colour vision it is important to consider the relationships between the saturation and photopic brightness-levels of certain colours for anomalous and red-green blind subjects.
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FICKFORD, R. Brightness and Saturation of Colours in Red-Green Defectives. Nature 164, 236–237 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164236b0
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