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Seeing black and white / Alan Gilchrist.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilchrist, Alan L.
- Series:
- Oxford psychology series.
- Oxford psychology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brightness perception.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reviews the history of the scientific development of lightness theory and outlines and critiques the theories of lightness laying out the strengths and weaknesses of each. This work presents author's argument that previous models of lightness perception fail to capture the errors and illusions present in human perception.
- Contents:
- The classic period
- The Katz period
- The Gestalt period
- The contrast period
- The computational period
- Computational models
- Illumination perception
- The anchoring problem
- Errors in lightness
- An anchoring model of errors
- Theories of lightness
- Concluding thoughts.
- Notes:
- Series from jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-408) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029315-2
- 0-19-804051-2
- 1-4294-2042-1
- 9786610845637
- 1-280-84563-5
- OCLC:
- 76916319
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