Abstract
This chapter demonstrates that human surface colour perception can be modelled as algorithms that, over certain ranges of environmental conditions, manage to assign colours to objects that are in correspondence with specific, objective properties of the object's surface, called intrinsic colours. The chapter suggests that under certain circumstances, human observers do seem to estimate intrinsic surface colours accurately. Environmental constraints permit us to succeed in perceiving stable surface colours. These constraints can be thought of as a list of precise assertions concerning a visual scene. If all of the assertions on the list are true of the scene, then human colour vision, confined to a specified environment, will assign colours to surfaces in that scene that are the same as those it assigns to these surfaces in another scene that also satisfies these assertions.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Colour Perception |
Subtitle of host publication | Mind and the Physical World |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191686764 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780198505006 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 22 2012 |
Keywords
- Colour perception
- Colour vision
- Colours
- Environmental constraints
- Intrinsic colours
- Visual scene
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Psychology