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Table of Contents
Preface

1. Our Idea of the Physical World
2. The Basic Anatomy of the Eye
3. How Photoreceptors Sense Light
4. Seeing Things That Aren’t There
5. Not Seeing Things That Are There
6. Brightness Constancy
7. Why the Rate Of Unbleaching Is Important
8. A Little Optics
9. Optometrists, Ophthalmologists, Opticians: What They Do
10. Color Vision
11. Actually Seeing and Not Seeing: Neural Mechanisms

Epilogue
Appendix: Refraction by Waves
Selected Bibliography
Index

Seeing How Light Tells Us About the World

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 12/09/2017
      ISBN13: 9780520294639, 978-0520294639
      ISBN10: 0520294637

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Preface

      1. Our Idea of the Physical World
      2. The Basic Anatomy of the Eye
      3. How Photoreceptors Sense Light
      4. Seeing Things That Aren’t There
      5. Not Seeing Things That Are There
      6. Brightness Constancy
      7. Why the Rate Of Unbleaching Is Important
      8. A Little Optics
      9. Optometrists, Ophthalmologists, Opticians: What They Do
      10. Color Vision
      11. Actually Seeing and Not Seeing: Neural Mechanisms

      Epilogue
      Appendix: Refraction by Waves
      Selected Bibliography
      Index

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