Colour and Form Perception: Straddling the Boundary

• Main Author: Galina V. Paramei (auth)
• Other Authors: Cees van Leeuwen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Color-shape association; Form; Color; integration; distributed spatio-chromatic processing; Physiology; 3D object color constancy; filling-in; segregation; Psychophysics; population coding
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Starting from psychophysics, over the last 50 years, most progress in unravelling the mechanisms of color vision has been made through the study of single cell responses, mainly in LGN and striate cortex. A similar development in the study of form perception may seem to be underway, centred on the s...