Lightness perception: seeing one color through another.
A newly described and dramatic visual illusion suggests that the retinal image is decomposed by the brain into overlapping layers, not into contiguous frameworks of illumination.
Gilchrist
Alan L
AL
Psychology Department, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA. alan@psychology.rutgers.edu
D003116:Color; D015350:Contrast Sensitivity / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009903:Optical Illusions / Q000502:physiology; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*