Brightness And Darkness As Perceptual Dimensions

A common-sense assumption concerning visual perception states that brightness and darkness cannot coexist at a given spatial location. One corollary of this assumption is that achromatic colors, or perceived grey shades, are contained in a one-dimensional (1-D) space varying from bright to dark. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Biology on October 20th, 2007