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  • The "Color Story": Why Important

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    The document discusses color perception and the cognitive approach to psychology. It notes that color perception has been studied for centuries by scientists like Galileo and Newton. While a photon distribution simply has wavelengths and photon numbers, human color experience is more complex and derived from our physiology. Additive and subtractive color mixing refer to different processes, and additive mixing involving photons will be the main focus. The document provides evidence that human color vision involves trichromatic receptors and opponent-process neurons, and that many photon distributions can produce the same color experience.

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    Lecture 10

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    The document discusses color perception and the cognitive approach to psychology. It notes that color perception has been studied for centuries by scientists like Galileo and Newton. While a photon distribution simply has wavelengths and photon numbers, human color experience is more complex and derived from our physiology. Additive and subtractive color mixing refer to different processes, and additive mixing involving photons will be the main focus. The document provides evidence that human color vision involves trichromatic receptors and opponent-process neurons, and that many photon distributions can produce the same color experience.

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    The "Color Story": Why Important

    Transféré par

    motnahpraw
    The document discusses color perception and the cognitive approach to psychology. It notes that color perception has been studied for centuries by scientists like Galileo and Newton. While a photon distribution simply has wavelengths and photon numbers, human color experience is more complex and derived from our physiology. Additive and subtractive color mixing refer to different processes, and additive mixing involving photons will be the main focus. The document provides evidence that human color vision involves trichromatic receptors and opponent-process neurons, and that many photon distributions can produce the same color experience.

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    The Color Story

    Why important:

    Shows the cognitive approach to psychology at its best: physics, physiology, phenomenology, behavior. Illustrates how research a program can develop over centuries, in this case including some of the greatest names in science: e.g., Galileo, Newton, Helmholtz.

    Always remember:

    A photon distribution just has wavelength and the number of photons of each wavelength. The far more complex structure of color experience is not in the physics: it derives from our physiology. Additive and subtractive color mixing are different things. Except when qualified, we will only be concerned with additive (photon) mixing. You can get very confused if you forget this. The same wavelength usually stimulates all trichromatic receptors, not just one of them. Many different photon distributions will elicit a single color experience.

    A photon distribution just has wavelength and the number of photons of each wavelength. .

    Number of Photons 100

    80

    60

    40

    20

    0 Wavelength (nm) Number of Photons Wavelength (nm) 20 100 80 60 40 2 00

    Additive and subtractive color mixing are different things. Except when qualified, we will only be concerned with additive (photon) mixing. You will be very confused if you forget this.

    The same wavelength usually stimulates all trichromatic receptors, not just one of them.

    Many different photon distributions can elicit a single color experience.

    Number of Photons

    Wavelength

    Complimentary colors produce white

    Striking phenomenological evidence for: --

    Trichromatic receptors: any color experience can be produced by three primary colors Opponent process neurons: Complementary colors produce white

    The far more complex structure of color experience is not in the physics: it derives from our physiology.

    Blue

    Green

    Red

    Blue Yellow

    Green

    Red

    White

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