Research Catalog
Visual perception
- Title
- Visual perception [by] Tom N. Cornsweet.
- Author
- Cornsweet, Tom N.
- Publication
- New York, Academic Press [1970]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | 88194.267 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 475 pages illustrations (some color); 26 cm
- Summary
- Text covers key topics in geometrical and visual optics for optometric practice ... features over 300 illustrations, summaries and self-assessment questions, and case studies.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 455-461.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The experiment of Hecht, Schlaer, and Pirenne -- The physics of light -- Quantal fluctuations -- The action of light on rod pigments -- The excitation of rods -- Cones and cone pigment -- Color vision I -- discriminations among wavelenght mixtures -- Color vision II -- retinal color systems -- Color vision III -- the perception of color -- The psychophysiology of brightness I: spatial interaction in the visual system -- The psychophysiology of brightness II: modulation transfer functions -- Brightness and color constancy -- Temporal properties of the visual system -- Stimulus generalization -- Speculations on "Higher Processes" -- Appendix I: Visual Angle -- Appendix II: Filter transmission versus density -- Appendix III: How to build an Ophthalmoscope -- Appendix IV: Demonstration of color contrast (colored shadows).
- ISBN
- 0121897508
- 9780121897505
- LCCN
- 71107570
- OCLC
- ocm00106217
- 106217
- SCSB-273633
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library