Colour Perception: Mind and the physical world - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198505000 ISBN 13: 9780198505006

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2003

Synopsis

Colour has long been a source of fascination to both scientists and philosophers. In one sense, colours are in the mind of the beholder, in another sense they belong to the external world. Colours appear to lie on the boundary where we have divided the world into 'objective' and 'subjective' events. They represent, more than any other attribute of our visual experience, a place where both physical and mental properties are interwoven in an intimate and enigmatic way.

The last few decades have brought fascinating changes in the way that we think about 'colour' and the role 'colour' plays in our perceptual architecture. In Colour Perception: Mind and the physical world, leading scholars from cognitive psychology, philosophy, neurophysiology, and computational vision provide an overview of the contemporary developments in our understanding of colours and of the relationship between the 'mental' and the 'physical'. With each chapter followed by critical commentaries, the volume presents a lively and accessible picture of the intellectual traditions which have shaped research into colour perception.

Written in a non-technical style and accessible to an interdisciplinary audience, the book will provide an invaluable resource for researchers in colour perception and the cognitive sciences.

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Review

. . . a scholarly and erudite publication that will no doubt prove to be a useful reference source . . . a thought-provoking book that provides an ambitious and broad perspective on how and why our nervous systems might construct colour. (Colour Technology, 120)

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198505000
• ISBN 13: 9780198505006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 538
• Editor: Mausfeld Rainer, Heyer Dieter