Author: Paul Linton

Country: USA

Description: One of the central questions in cognitive psychology is how we distinguish perception (what we visually experience) from cognition (what we think or judge about what we see). Color constancy illusions are generally thought to fall on the perception side of this divide: changing the surrounding context of a disk appears to change the color of the disk itself. But is this really a change in visual experience, or merely a change in how we interpret and judge the color? The Linton Color Constancy Illusion challenges the traditional view, suggesting that this effect reflects our cognition rather than our perception.