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The paradox of colour constancy: Plotting the lower borders of perception
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This paper resolves a paradox concerning colour constancy. On the one hand, our intuitive, pre-theoretical concept holds that colour constancy involves invariance in the perceived colours of surfaces under changes in illumination. On the other, there is a robust scientific consensus that colour constancy can persist in cerebral achromatopsia, a profound impairment in the ability to perceive colours. The first stage of the solution advocates pluralism about our colour constancy capacities. The...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Noûs Journal website
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 787-813
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-04-15
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1468-0068
- ISSN:
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0029-4624
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1184534
- Local pid:
- pubs:1184534
- Deposit date:
- 2021-07-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Will Davies
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 The Authors. Noûs published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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