Color vision: appearance is a many-layered thing.
The color of a surface changes when it is surrounded by other colors. A new illusion shows these changes are much stronger when seen through other colors as transparency, suggesting the brain parses the causes of color into separate layers.
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA.
Michael A
MA
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