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Luminance and color of surfaces provide fast and reliable means for the visual recognition and identification of objects (Dobkins & Albright, 1994; Sun & Perona, 1996). The perceptions of both color and luminance seem to share many properties. They are established essentially on the basis of local contrasts but subject to variations due to more global variations of illumination (Daw, 1984; Shapley & Reid, 1985; Reid & Shapley, 1988). Long range phenomena like constancy and induction appear to modify the perception of both luminance and color in a comparable way.
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Wachtler, T., Wehrhahn, C. (1996). Perception of Luminance and Color. In: Torre, V., Conti, F. (eds) Neurobiology. NATO ASI Series, vol 289. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5899-6_30
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