Adaptation and the Phenomenology of Perception

Fitting the Mind to the World: Adaptation and After-Effects in High-Level Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Webster, Michael A ^a   Werner, John S ^b   Field, David J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Psychology Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Sensory adaptation; Subjective experience; Visual coding; Visual perception; Visual phenomenology; Visual sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921559352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198529699.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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