Color appearance of familiar objects: Effects of object shape, texture, and illumination changes

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Olkkonen, Maria ^a,b   Hansen, Thorsten ^a   Gegenfurtner, Karl R ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color appearance; Color constancy; Memory colors; Natural objects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COLOR; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTIFACTS; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 44449136914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.5.13     Document Type: Article

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