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According to the opponent-process theory of color vision, why do we see afterimages?
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According to the opponent-process theory of color vision, why do we see afterimages?
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Afterimages occur because staring at a certain color for too long fatigues the cone cells responsible for detecting that color, which causes an opponent process to occur, creating the afterimage.
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