Color Perception: Physiology, Processes and Analysis

COLOR PERCEPTION:PHYSIOLOGY, PROCESSESAND ANALYSIS......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 7
PREFACE......Page 9
ABSTRACT......Page 15
2.1.1. Anatomical Asymmetry of Brain......Page 16
2.1.4. Reaction Time Task Based Upon Double Crossed Projections......Page 17
2.2.2.1. Participants......Page 18
2.2.2.3. Procedures......Page 19
2.2.4.Discussion......Page 20
2.3.3. Results......Page 22
2.3.4. Discussion......Page 24
2.4.4. Discussion......Page 25
2.5.2.2. Apparatus......Page 27
2.5.4.1. Effect of Luminance on Hemispheric Asymmetry......Page 28
2.5.4.2. Effect of Contrast on Hemispheric Asymmetry......Page 29
2.6.1. Purpose......Page 30
2.6.4. Discussion......Page 31
2.7.3. Results......Page 33
3.1.1. Startle Response......Page 35
3.3.1. Participants......Page 36
3.3.4. Startle Stimulus......Page 37
3.3.6. Procedures......Page 38
3.4.2. Typical Example of PPI of the Blink Response......Page 39
3.4.3. Responses to Chromatic and Achromatic Prepulses......Page 40
3.5.1. Three Types of Blink Reflexes......Page 41
3.5.2. Eyelid and Eye Movements During Blinking......Page 43
3.5.5. Cortical Contributions to PPI......Page 44
4.2. Two Visual Streams......Page 45
4.3. Three Hierarchies of the Brain......Page 47
4.4. Limbic System......Page 48
4.5. Dual Processing Circuits of Visual Inputs......Page 49
4.6. Physiological Studies in Humans: Synchronous Activity ofInferotemporal Cortex and Amygdala......Page 50
4.8. Amygdala and the Affective Disorders......Page 51
4.10. Multimodal Processing for Object Recognition......Page 52
REFERENCES......Page 53
INTRODUCTION......Page 65
1.1. Newton on the Properties of Light and Color......Page 67
1.2. Interaction of the Color-Sensing Elements of the Eye......Page 69
1.3. The Color Perception and the Mutual Interaction of Various Systems ofthe Organism......Page 70
The Role of the Vegetative Nervous System......Page 73
The Changing of Physiological Readiness of the Organism to Perception......Page 74
Parmenides......Page 75
Descartes......Page 76
Leibnitz......Page 77
Wittgenstein......Page 78
Modern Analytic Tradition......Page 79
1) Necessity......Page 80
2) Historical Development of the Scientific Fact (L. Fleck)......Page 82
3) Theoretical Ladenness of Observations (P. Duhem, N. R. Hanson, T. Kun,P. Feyerabend)......Page 83
4) Impossibility to Draw a Line between Theory and Experience (G.Maxwell)......Page 84
The Thesis of Underdeterminacy as a Corollary of Perception Activity......Page 85
Impossibility of Drawing a Boundary between Theory and Experience as aCorollary of the Perception Activity......Page 86
2.4. The Difficulties of the Picture Theory from the Point of View of theEmpirical Holism Principle......Page 88
3. COLOR REALISM AND OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES OF THEMUTUAL INFLUENCE OF SENSE ORGANS......Page 91
3.1. Color and Realism: Continuity of Experience as a Source of Belief inExistence......Page 93
3.2. The Color and Cognition......Page 95
Example of Presetting Influence on the Possibility of Observation......Page 97
CONCLUSION......Page 98
REFERENCES......Page 99
ABSTRACT......Page 103
What Is Colour?......Page 104
Biological Colourations in Living Organisms......Page 106
Pigment Based Colouration......Page 107
Structure Based Colourations......Page 109
Bioluminescence: Colourations from Light......Page 115
Colour Vision in Non-Humans......Page 116
Colour and the Human Visual System......Page 119
Comparative Psychophysics and the Biological Role of Colour Perception inAnimals......Page 120
Deceptive Signalling or Camouflage......Page 124
Advertising and Mate Choice......Page 125
Repulsive Signalling......Page 127
Colour Perception in Man: Context Effects, Culture and Colour Symbolism......Page 128
Colour Perception and Cultural Differences......Page 129
Colour Symbolism and Emotions......Page 130
REFERENCES......Page 131
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 139
2. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE FUNDAMENTALS......Page 147
3. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN......Page 154
B. PSYCHOPHYSICAL TEST......Page 157
C. SAMPLE......Page 158
4. DIFFERENCES IN THE MODEL OF COLOUR VISION......Page 160
4. CONCLUSION......Page 170
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 171
REFERENCES......Page 172
ABSTRACT......Page 175
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 176
2. COLOR PROCESSING IN THE PRIMATE BRAIN—GENERAL OVERVIEW......Page 177
2.1. Evidences For and Against the Segregation Hypothesis......Page 178
2.1.1. Early Visual Areas......Page 180
2.1.2. Higher Visual Areas......Page 181
2.2. Evidences For and Against a Specialized Color Centre in the Primate......Page 183
CONCLUSION......Page 186
REFERENCES......Page 187
ABSTRACT......Page 199
1. A SHORT HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE PHENOMENALIST VIEW ABOUT COLOUR COMPOSITION......Page 200
2. THE PHENOMENAL EVIDENCES FOR THE UNITARY/BINARYCOLOUR DISTINCTION......Page 202
3. THE PHENOMENAL EVIDENCES FOR COLOUR COMPOSITION......Page 207
4. MIXING WATER AND MIXING COLOURS......Page 210
REFERENCES......Page 214
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 217
2.1. Direct Partial Differential Equation-Based Anisotropic Diffusion......Page 219
2.2. Variational Approaches......Page 220
2.3. Statistics-Based Anisotropic Diffusion......Page 221
2.4. Color Image Denoising and HSI Space......Page 222
2.5. Gradient Vector Flow Field......Page 223
3.1. Intensity Diffusion......Page 225
3.2. Hue Diffusion......Page 227
3.3. Saturation Diffusion......Page 228
4. EXPERIMENTS......Page 229
5. CONCLUSIONS......Page 234
REFERENCE......Page 235
COLOR IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH: TOWARD A SYSTEMATIC METHOD OF MEASUREMENT......Page 239
REFERENCES......Page 246
ABSTRACT......Page 253
CAROTENOIDS AS COLORANTS OF SALMONOID FLESH......Page 254
SEA URCHIN AQUACULTURE......Page 255
CAROTENOIDS OF SEA URCHINS AND THEIR EFFECTSON ANIMAL HEALTH......Page 256
Effect of a Diet on Roe Color......Page 257
Relationship between Roe Color and Carotenoid Content......Page 259
REFERENCES......Page 261
INTRODUCTION......Page 267
Colorism in the Workplace......Page 269
CONCLUSION......Page 271
REFERENCES......Page 272
ABSTRACT......Page 275
REFERENCES......Page 277
ABSTRACT......Page 279
REFERENCES......Page 282
INDEX......Page 283