Trichromatic colour vision

Trichromatic colour vision (Trichromacy)

Photo-transduction by cone cell receptors is the physiological basis for trichromatic colour vision in humans. The fact that we see colour is, in the first instance, the result of interactions among the three types of cones, each of which responds with a bias towards its favoured wavelength within the visible spectrum. The result is that the L, M and S cone types respond best to light with long wavelengths (L =biased towards 560 nm), medium wavelengths (M =biased towards 530 nm), and short wavelengths (S = biased towards 420 nm) respectively.