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Memory colours affect colour appearance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Christoph Witzel ,
Maria Olkkonen  and
Karl R. Gegenfurtner
Christoph Witzel
Affiliation:
Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, 35625 Giessen, Germany; gegenfurtner@uni-giessen.de http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/karl Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception (LPP), Université Paris Descartes, 75006 Paris, France; cwitzel@daad-alumni.de http://lpp.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/person.php?name=ChristophW
Maria Olkkonen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom; maria.olkkonen@durham.ac.uk https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/directory/staff/?mode=staff&id=14131 Institute of Behavioural Sciences, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
Karl R. Gegenfurtner
Affiliation:
Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, 35625 Giessen, Germany; gegenfurtner@uni-giessen.de http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/karl
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Abstract

Memory colour effects show that colour perception is affected by memory and prior knowledge and hence by cognition. None of Firestone & Scholl's (F&S's) potential pitfalls apply to our work on memory colours. We present a Bayesian model of colour appearance to illustrate that an interaction between perception and memory is plausible from the perspective of vision science.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e262
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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