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Colour Perception Mind and the Physical World

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ISBN-10: 0198505000

ISBN-13: 9780198505006

Edition: 2003

Authors: Rainer Mausfeld, Dieter Heyer

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Colour has long been a source of fascination to both scientists and philosophers. In one sense, colours are in the mind of the beholder, in another sense they belong to the external world. Colours appear to lie on the boundary where we have divided the world into 'objective' and 'subjective' events. They represent, more than any other attribute of our visual experience, a place where both physical and mental properties are interwoven in an intimate and enigmatic way. The last few decades have brought fascinating changes in the way that we think about 'colour' and the role 'colour' plays in our perceptual architecture. In Colour Perception: Mind and the physical world, leading scholars from…    
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Book details

List price: $260.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/8/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 538
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English

List of Contributors
Perspectives on colour space
Commentaries
From physics to perception through colorimetry: a bridge too far?
Colorimetry fortified
Light adaptation, contrast adaptation, and human colour vision
Commentary
Adaptation and the ambiguity of response measures with respect to internal structure
Contrast colours
Commentaries
A background to colour vision
Contrast coding and what else?
Colour and the processing of chromatic information
Commentary
The processing of chromatic information
The pleistochrome: optimal opponent codes for natural colours
Commentary
Thinking outside the black box
Objectivity and subjectivity revisited: colour as a psychobiological property
Commentary
Why is this game still being played?
A computational analysis of colour constancy
Commentary
The importance of realistic models of surface and light in the study of human colour vision
Backgrounds and illuminants: the yin and yang of colour constancy
Commentaries
Colour construction
Fitting linear models to data
Surface colour perception and environmental constraints
Commentaries
On the function of colour vision
Intrinsic colours--and what it is like to see them
Colour constancy: developing empirical tests of computational models
Commentaries
Surface colour perception and its environments
Comparing the behaviour of machine vision algorithms and human observers
The illuminant estimation hypothesis and surface colour perception
Commentary
Surface colour appearance in nearly natural images
The interaction of colour and motion
Commentary
The interaction of perceived colour and perceived motion?
'Colour' as part of the format of different perceptual primitives: the dual coding of colour
Commentaries
Phenomenology and mechanism
An internalist account of colour
The importance of errors in perception
Avoiding errors about error
Commentaries
Deconstructing the concept of error?
Talking across the divide
On the veridicality of lightness perception
The place of colour in nature
Commentaries
Asking about the nature of colour
Who dictates what is real?
Author Index
Subject Index