Seeing black and white

the long version

"In Seeing Black and White, Alan Gilchrist ties together over 30 years of his own research on lightness, and presents the first comprehensive, historical review of empirical work on lightness, covering the past 150 years of research on images ranging from the simple to the complex. He also describes and analyzes the many theories of lightness - including his own - showing what each can and cannot explain. Gilchrist highlights the forgotten yet exciting work done in the first third of the twentieth century, describing several crucial experiments and examining the brilliant but nearly unknown work of the Hungarian gestalt theorist Lajos Kardos." "As both the first comprehensive overview of research on lightness and the first unified presentation of Gilchrist's new theoretical framework, Seeing Black and White will be a valuable resource for vision scientists, cognitive psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists."--Jacket.