Bezold–Brücke phenomenon

Bezold–Brücke phenomenon

the perception that bright illumination makes yellowish stimuli appear closer to yellow and bluish stimuli closer to blue. [Johann Friedrich W. von Bezold (1837–1907), German physicist; Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819–1892), German physiologist]

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