Behavioral and Brain Sciences


Short Communication

Color realism and color illusions


Dejan Todorovic a1

a1 Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia dtodorov@f.bg.ac.yu

Abstract

As demonstrated by several example displays, color illusions challenge color realism, because they involve a one-to-many reflectance-to-color mapping. Solving this problem by differentiating between veridical and illusory colors corresponding to the same reflectance is hampered because of the lack of an appropriate criterion. However, the difference between veridical and illusory color perception can still be maintained.