Colour And Colour Theories (International Library of Psychology)

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Preface 8 Introductory 12 PART I 18 I. Vision 20 II. A New Theory of Light-Sensation 83 III. On Theories of Light-Sensation 89 IV. Normal Night-Blindness of the Fovea: Disproof of the König Theory of Colour 109 V. The Rods and Cones of the Retina: Their Dissimilarity in Function 122 VI. The Theory of Colour Theories 131 VII. The Evolution Theory of the Colour-Sensations (The Ladd-Franklin Theory of Colour): A Question of Priority 143 VIII. On Colour Theories and Chromatic Sensations: A Criticism of Parsons' Colour Vision 149 IX. The Nature of the Colour-Sensations 165 X. Practical Logic and Colour Theories: On a Discussion of the Ladd-Franklin Theory 182 PART II SHORTER CONTRIBUTIONS AND REVIEWS 204 1. Light-Sensation (A New Theory) 206 2. Colour-Blindness and William Pole 208 3. The Extended Purkinje Phenomenon (for White Lights) 210 4. Cones are Highly Developed Rods 215 5. An Ill-considered Colour Theory 219 6. Change in Relative Brightness of Whites of Different Physical Constitution as seen in Photopic and in Scotopic Vision : Disproof of the Hering Theory of Colour 226 7. The Uniqueness of the Blackness-Sensation 228 8. Putting Physiology, Physics, and Psychology Together 230 9. The Reddish Blue Arcs and the Reddish Blue Glow of the Retina : Seeing Your Own Nerve Currents 232 APPENDIX A: Eine neue Theorie der Lichtempfindungen (A New Theory of the Light-Sensations) 236 APPENDIX B: ARTICLES BU OTHER WRITERS 248 1. Dr. Trqland’s Discussion of Colour Theory (Neifeld) 248 2. The Ladd-Franklin Theory of the Black-Sensation (Neifeld) 258 3. The Colour-Sensation Theory of Dr. Schanz (Neifeld) 264 4. Black: A Non-Light Sensation (Michaels) 272 5. Later Discussion of the Ladd-Franklin Theory of Colour (Israeli) 277 APPENDIX C 292 Explanation of Charts 292 Development of the Colour-Sense (Frontispiece) 296 APPENDIX D: LIST OF DATES AND ORIGINAL SOURCES 298 Glossary 300 Index 302 This is Volume VIII of twenty-one in a collection on Cognitive Psychology. Originally published in 1929, the topic of this book, then, is the Ladd-Franklin theory of colour. Dr. Ladd-Franklin has been the first (and is still too nearly the only) physiologist to consider colour always in the light of the development of the colour-sense. This aspect of the subject is frequently reproduced in the present volume.