The empirical basis of color perception.
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Lotto, RB; Purves, D
Published in: Consciousness and cognition
December 2002
Rationalizing the perceptual effects of spectral stimuli has been a major challenge in vision science for at least the last 200 years. Here we review evidence that this otherwise puzzling body of phenomenology is generated by an empirical strategy of perception in which the color an observer sees is entirely determined by the probability distribution of the possible sources of the stimulus. The rationale for this strategy in color vision, as in other visual perceptual domains, is the inherent ambiguity of the real-world origins of any spectral stimulus.
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Consciousness and cognition
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1090-2376
ISSN
1053-8100
Publication Date
December 2002
Volume
11
Issue
4
Start / End Page
609 / 629
Related Subject Headings
- Probability
- Photic Stimulation
- Light
- Humans
- Experimental Psychology
- Color Perception
- 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
- 5202 Biological psychology
- 5003 Philosophy
- 2203 Philosophy
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Lotto, R. B., & Purves, D. (2002). The empirical basis of color perception. Consciousness and Cognition, 11(4), 609–629. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1053-8100(02)00014-4
Lotto, R Beau, and Dale Purves. “The empirical basis of color perception.” Consciousness and Cognition 11, no. 4 (December 2002): 609–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1053-8100(02)00014-4.
Lotto RB, Purves D. The empirical basis of color perception. Consciousness and cognition. 2002 Dec;11(4):609–29.
Lotto, R. Beau, and Dale Purves. “The empirical basis of color perception.” Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 11, no. 4, Dec. 2002, pp. 609–29. Epmc, doi:10.1016/s1053-8100(02)00014-4.
Lotto RB, Purves D. The empirical basis of color perception. Consciousness and cognition. 2002 Dec;11(4):609–629.
Published In
Consciousness and cognition
DOI
EISSN
1090-2376
ISSN
1053-8100
Publication Date
December 2002
Volume
11
Issue
4
Start / End Page
609 / 629
Related Subject Headings
- Probability
- Photic Stimulation
- Light
- Humans
- Experimental Psychology
- Color Perception
- 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
- 5202 Biological psychology
- 5003 Philosophy
- 2203 Philosophy