The humanretina containsthreetypes of conecellsthat absorblight in differentpartsof the spectrum. ABsenceof thesetypescauses colour Blindness to red, green, and Blue.
In a series of five studies, about 150 heterosexual men (homosexual men and those with red-green color blindness were excluded) rated photographs of women framed in red, white, gray, green, or blue, or with the woman in a red or blue shirt.