Visual perception

Text covers key topics in geometrical and visual optics for optometric practice ... features over 300 illustrations, summaries and self-assessment questions, and case studies.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cornsweet, Tom N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, Academic Press [1970]
Subjects:
Visual perception.
Visual Perception
Perception visuelle.
visual perception.
Visual perception
Psychologie
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Vormwaarneming.
Visuele waarneming.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The experiment of Hecht, Schlaer, and Pirenne
  • The physics of light
  • Quantal fluctuations
  • The action of light on rod pigments
  • The excitation of rods
  • Cones and cone pigment
  • Color vision I
  • discriminations among wavelenght mixtures
  • Color vision II
  • retinal color systems
  • Color vision III
  • the perception of color
  • The psychophysiology of brightness I: spatial interaction in the visual system
  • The psychophysiology of brightness II: modulation transfer functions
  • Brightness and color constancy
  • Temporal properties of the visual system
  • Stimulus generalization
  • Speculations on "Higher Processes"
  • Appendix I: Visual Angle
  • Appendix II: Filter transmission versus density
  • Appendix III: How to build an Ophthalmoscope
  • Appendix IV: Demonstration of color contrast (colored shadows).

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