Color, line, and space; the neuroscience of spatio-chromatic vision.

9789004153066

Color, line, and space; the neuroscience of spatio-chromatic vision.

Ed. by Baingio Pinna.

VSP Publications

2006

271 pages

$174.00

Paperback

QP483

The ability of animals to perceive color differences seems to have existed for at least half a billion years. Primates turned this already complex phenomenon into a massive neural investment considered independent of a perception of luminance that is evolutionarily older than the color system. Both color and luminance are central to this collection of 11 papers that are based on psychophysical experiments informed by neural and computational models, and the result is useful to those working in or studying visual neuroscience, psychology, ophthalmology, cognitive science and computer science. Topics include an introduction to spatio-chromatic interactions, neural adjustments to chromatic blur, color contrast influences in perceiving shape, Fechner-Benham subjective colors and McCollough effects, cone contrast computations, surface interpolation, lightness and illumination in terms of gradients, a neural model of surface perception, and two contributions on the watercolor illusion. VSP is a subsidiary of Brill.

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