Visual perception

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

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Full title :Visual perception / [by] Tom N. Cornsweet.

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1970

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Publisher(s):Academic Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1970

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Description:1 online resource (xiii, 475 pages) : illustrations (some color)

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ISBN:9780121897505, 0121897508
oclc:ocn598096722
LC Classification:QP481
Dewey Decimal:612/.84

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).