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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792244903321

Autore

Gilchrist Alan L

Titolo

Seeing black and white [[electronic resource] /] / Alan Gilchrist

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-804051-2

1-4294-2042-1

9786610845637

1-280-84563-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Collana

Oxford psychology series

Disciplina

152.14/3

Soggetti

Brightness perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Series from jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-408) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.