What did Helmholtz and Hering disagree about?
A)what should be considered perception and what should be considered sensation
B)signal detection theory and just-noticeable differences
C)the nature of color vision and whether perception involves unconscious inferences
D)the doctrine of specific energy and the role of psychophysics in understanding perception

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Helmholtz and Hering disagreed about the nature of color vision and whether perception involves unconscious inferences. Helmholtz believed in the trichromatic theory of color vision where three types of receptors in the eye are responsible for color perception, while Hering proposed the opponent-process theory where color is perceived in terms of opposite pairs (e.g. red-green, blue-yellow). Additionally, Helmholtz believed that perception involved unconscious inferences while Hering disagreed with this idea.

What Did Helmholtz and Hering Disagree About