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Spatial phenomenology requires potential illumination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2004

James A. Schirillo*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC27109

Abstract:

Collapsing three-dimensional space into two violates Lehar's “volumetric mapping” constraint and can cause the visual system to construct illusory transparent regions to replace voxels that would have contained illumination. This may underlie why color constancy is worse in two dimensions, and argues for Lehar to revise his phenomenal spatial model by putting “potential illumination” in empty space.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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