Brightness and Darkness as Perceptual Dimensions
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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. The results of many previous psychophysical studies suggest, by contrast, that achromatic colors are...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Computational Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030179