Understanding vision in wholly empirical terms.
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SUBMITTER: Purves D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3176612 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
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Understanding vision in wholly empirical terms.
Purves Dale D Wojtach William T WT Lotto R Beau RB
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110307
This article considers visual perception, the nature of the information on which perceptions seem to be based, and the implications of a wholly empirical concept of perception and sensory processing for vision science. Evidence from studies of lightness, brightness, color, form, and motion all indicate that, because the visual system cannot access the physical world by means of retinal light patterns as such, what we see cannot and does not represent the actual properties of objects or images. T ...[more]
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