Colour perception
Subtitle: mind and the physical world
By: edited by Rainer Mausfeld, Dieter Heyer.
Contributors: Mausfeld, Rainer.; Heyer, Dieter.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Visual perception -- Psychological aspects; Color -- Psychological aspects; Color vision; Color Perception -- physiology
Description: Long a source of fascination to both scientists and philosophers, colour appears to lie on the boundary where we divide the world into 'objective' and 'subjective' events. Here scholars from various disciplines provide an overview of the contemporary developments in our understanding of colour.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Perspectives on colour space / Jan J. Koenderink and Andrea J. Van Doorn; title: Light adaptation, contrast adaptation, and human colour vision / Michael A. Webster; title: Contrast colours / Michael A. Webster; title: Colour and the processing of chromatic information / Michael D'Zmura; title: The pleistochrome: optimal opponent codes for natural colours / Donald I.A. MacLeod and T. Von der Twer; title: Objectivity and subjectivity revisited: colour as a psychobiological property / Gary Hatfield; title: A computational analysis of colour constancy / Donald I.A. MacLeod and Jurgen Golz; title: Backgrounds and illuminants: the yin and yang of colour constancy / Richard O. Brown; title: Surface colour perception and environmental constraints / Laurence T. Maloney; title: Colour constancy: developing empirical tests of computational models / David H. Brainard, James M. Kraft, and Philippe Longere; title: The illuminant estimation hypothesis and surface colour perception / Laurence T. Maloney and Joong Nam Yang; title: The interaction of colour and motion / Donald D. Hoffman; title: "Colour" as part of hte format of different perceptual primitives: the dual coding of colour / Rainer Mausfeld; title: The importance of errors in perception / Alan Gilchrist; title: Avoiding errors about error / Robert Schwartz; title: The place of colour in nature / Brian P. McLaughlin.