Valberg Light Vision Color

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-470-01212-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 474 Seiten, E-Book

Light Vision Color takes a well-balanced, interdisciplinaryapproach to our most important sensory system. The booksuccessfully combines basics in vision sciences with recentdevelopments from different areas such as neuroscience, biophysics,sensory psychology and philosophy. Originally published in 1998this edition has been extensively revised and updated to includenew chapters on clinical problems and eye diseases, low visionrehabilitation and the basic molecular biology and genetics ofcolour vision.
* Takes a broad interdisciplinary approach combining basics invision sciences with the most recent developments in the area
* Includes an extensive list of technical terms and explanationsto encourage student understanding
* Successfully brings together the most important areas of thesubject in to one volume

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valberg, Arne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 INTRODUCTION.
VISION AND EXPERIENCE.
VISION AND NATURAL SCIENCE.
VISUAL ILLUSIONS.
2 OPTICS.
LIGHT.
GEOMETRICAL OPTICS.
IMAGING IN THE EYE.
3 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE EYE.
The EYE IS NOT A CAMERA.
THE OPTIC MEDIA.
THE RETINA.
SIGNAL GENERATION.
4 SENSITIVITY AND RESPONSE.
PHOTOMETRY.
CONTRAST VISION.
VISION LOSS.
5 COLOR.
PHYSICS OF COLOR STIMULI
COLOR DIFFERENCES.
COLOR INDUCTION AND ADAPTATION.
6 COLOR VISION.
THE OPPONENT MODEL AND COLOR PERCEPTION.
7 NEURAL CORRELATES.
PSYCHOPHYSICS AND PARALLEL PATHWAYS.
8 BRAIN PROCESSES.
APPENDIX.
A Physiologically Based System for Color Measurement.
Tables and Diagrams.
GLOSSARY.
LITERATURE.
INDEX.

Über Autor(innen)

1 INTRODUCTION.
VISION AND EXPERIENCE.
VISION AND NATURAL SCIENCE.
VISUAL ILLUSIONS.
2 OPTICS.
LIGHT.
GEOMETRICAL OPTICS.
IMAGING IN THE EYE.
3 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE EYE.
THE EYE IS NOT A CAMERA.
THE OPTIC MEDIA.
THE RETINA.
SIGNAL GENERATION.
4 SENSITIVITY AND RESPONSE.
PHOTOMETRY.
CONTRAST VISION.
VISION LOSS.
5 COLOR.
PHYSICS OF COLOR STIMULI
COLOR DIFFERENCES.
COLOR INDUCTION AND ADAPTATION.
6 COLOR VISION.
THE OPPONENT MODEL AND COLOR PERCEPTION.
7 NEURAL CORRELATES.
PSYCHOPHYSICS AND PARALLEL PATHWAYS.
8 BRAIN PROCESSES.
APPENDIX.
A Physiologically Based System for Color Measurement.
Tables and Diagrams.
GLOSSARY.
LITERATURE.
INDEX.