Colours and Colour Vision: An Introductory Survey - Hardcover

Kernell, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107083036 ISBN 13: 9781107083035

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Colours are increasingly important in our daily life, but how did colour vision evolve? How have colours been made, used and talked about in different cultures and tasks? How do various species of animals see colours? Which physical stimuli allow us to see colours and by which physiological mechanisms are they perceived? How and why do people differ in their colour perceptions? In answering these questions and others, this book offers an unusually broad account of the complex phenomenon of colour and colour vision. The book's broad and accessible approach gives it wide appeal and it will serve as a useful coursebook for upper-level undergraduate students studying psychology, particularly cognitive neuroscience and visual perception courses, as well as for students studying colour vision as part of biology, medicine, art and architecture courses.

About this title

Book Description:

An unusually broad account of colours and colour vision which deals with the historical and cultural roles of colours as well as the physical and neurophysiological mechanisms. Variations of colour vision are also described, both within human populations and between different species of animals.

About the Author:

Daniel Kernell is Emeritus Professor of Medical Physiology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107083036
• ISBN 13: 9781107083035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 271