Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xiii, 475 pages illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

1. 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

1. Visual perception
2. Visual Perception
3. visual perception
4. Psychologie
5. Visuelle Wahrnehmung
6. Vormwaarneming
7. Visuele waarneming
8. Psychologie
9. Visuelle Wahrnehmung

Contents

1. 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).

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 455-461.