Duplicity theory of vision
Subtitle: from Newton to the present
By: edited by Bjørn Stabell and Ulf Stabell.
Contributors: Stabell, Bjørn.; Stabell, Ulf.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780521111171
Subjects: Vision, Ocular -- physiology; Visual Pathways -- physiology; Color Perception -- physiology; Ophthalmology -- history; Visual Perception -- physiology; Visual pathways; Eye -- Adaptation; Vision -- Research -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207]-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Development of the basic ideas of the duplicity theory from Newton to G.E. Müller; title: Newton tradition; title: Schultze tradition; title: Goethe tradition: the phenomenological approach; title: Colour theories of Armin Tschermak; title: Development of the duplicity theory from 1930-1966; title: Duplicity theory of Polyak; title: Investigations of H.K. Hartline and S.W. Kuffler; title: Duplicity theory of R. Granit; title: Contributions of E.N. Willmer, P. Saugstad & A. Saugstad, and I. Lie; title: Status of the duplicity theory in the mid 1960s and its further development; title: Chromatic rod vision: a historical account - Night vision may appear bluish; title: Mechanisms of chromatic rod vision in scotopic illumination; title: Rod-cone interactions in mesopic vision; title: Further exploration of chromatic rod vision; title: Theories of sensitivity regulation of the rod and cone systems: a historical account; title: Early photochemical explanations; title: Contribution of S. Hecht; title: Contribution of G. Wald: photochemical sensitivity; title: Relationship between amount of rhodopsin and sensitivity during dark adaptation; title: Post-receptor sensitivity regulation mechanisms; title: Rushton's AGC model; title: Contribution of H.B. Barlow; title: Rushton and Barlow compared; title: Dowling-Rushton equation refuted; title: Several mechanisms involved in sensitivity regulation; title: Sensitivity regulation due to rod-cone interaction; title: Modern conceptions of sensitivity regulation; title: Factors that triggered the paradigm shifts in the development of the duplicity theory; title: Summary of K.R. Popper's and T.S. Kuhn's models of scientific development; title: Development of the duplicity theory as a test of Popper's and Kuhn's models.