Volume 34, Number 18 · November 19, 1987
The Case of the Colorblind Painter
By Oliver Sacks, Robert Wasserman
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Some Uncommon Observations About Vitiated Sight
by Robert Boyle
J. Taylor (London, 1688)
"Disorders of Complex Visual Processing"
by Antonio R. Damasio. in M-Marsel Mesulam, ed., Principles of Behavioral Neurology
F.A. Davis, 405 pp., $55.00
Caspar Hauser
by Anselm von Feuerbach
Simpkin & Marshall (London, 1834)
The Intelligent Eye
by Richard L. Gregory
McGraw Hill (1971, out of print)
Physiological Optics Society of America, Washington, DC, 1924
by Hermann von Helmholtz. original edition 1856–1867, translation published by The Optical
"The Retinex Theory of Color Vision"
by Edwin H. Land in Scientific American
Vol. 237
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
by David Marr
W.H. Freeman, 397 pp., $25.95 (paper)
"Retinex Theory and Colour Constancy," article by J.J. McCann
in Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Oxford University Press, 856 pp., $49.95
"Colour Vision: Eye Mechanisms," article by W.A.H. Rushton
in Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Oxford University Press, 856 pp., $49.95
Remarks on Colour
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
University of California Press, 126 pp., $7.95 (paper)
"The Construction of Colours by the Cerebral Cortex" an article by S. Zeki
in Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Vol. 56, 231-257 pp.
"Selective Disturbance of Movement Vision after Bilateral Brain Damage"
in Brain, article by J. Zihl et al.
Vol. 106 pp.
Colourful Notions series The Nature of Things (1984)
A film written and produced by John Roth
Early in March 1986 one of us received the following letter:
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