Daniel Kernell (The Netherlands Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

Colours and Colour Vision

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9781107443549
• ISBN-10: 1107443547
• Artikelnr.: 42802035

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. Colour vision in everyday life
2. The signals of colours: light and wavelengths
3. Colours and viewing conditions: not only local wavelengths
4. Our biological hardware: eye and brain
5. Eyes with unconventional properties: the 'red-green blinds'
6. Other kinds of unconventional colour vision
7. Colour vision in different species of animals.