Wednesday, November 6, 2013

PERCEPTUAL CONSTANCIES- Brightness edition

                                Brightness Constancy 

What is it?

We perceive objects as being a constant color even as the light reflecting off the object changes. 

An example of this would be?


A sheet of white paper seen in the bright sunlight reflects a different amount of light than the same sheet of paper seen later that night in a darkly lighted room. Yet we perceive the paper as having the same whiteness in each scenario.

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