Colour Perception

Mind and the physical world
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-850500-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 538 Seiten, Format (B × H): 176 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 1205 g

Long a source of fascination to both scientists and philosophers, colour appears to lie on the boundary where we divide the world into "objective" and "subjective" events. Here, scholars from various disciplines provide an overview of the contemporary developments in our understanding of colour.

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 wo

Preface; 1. Perspectives on colour space; Commentaries; From physics to perception through colorimetry: a bridge too far?; Colorimetry fortified; 2. Light adaptation, contrast adaptation, and human colour vision; Commentary; Adaptation and the ambiguity o

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mausfeld, Rainer

Heyer, Dieter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Experimentelle Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Wahrnehmung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie

Über Autor(innen)

Mausfeld, Rainer (Professor of Psychology, University of Kiel, Germany) / Heyer, Dieter (Professor of Psychology, Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)