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Leo Hurvich

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PhD Psychology University of Pennsylvania
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According to Wikipedia, Leo Maurice Hurvich was an American psychologist who conducted research into human color vision. He was married to fellow cognitive psychologist Dorothea Jameson. The pair collaborated on much of their work, including an elaboration on the opponent process theory. Hurvich was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and he received the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association.

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Leo Hurvich's Published Works

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Color vision (1981) (1030)
An opponent-process theory of color vision. (1957) (978)
Mach bands : quantitative studies on neural networks in the retina (1966) (578)
Some Quantitative Aspects of an Opponent-Colors Theory. I. Chromatic Responses and Spectral Saturation (1955) (373)
Some quantitative aspects of an opponent-colors theory. II. Brightness, saturation, and hue in normal and dichromatic vision. (1955) (366)
Theory of brightness and color contrast in human vision. (1964) (261)
Essay concerning color constancy. (1989) (259)
Complexities of perceived brightness. (1961) (206)
Opponent chromatic induction: experimental evaluation and theoretical account. (1961) (166)
The perception of brightness and darkness (1970) (159)
Perceived color and its dependence on focal, surrounding, and preceding stimulus variables. (1959) (157)
Handbook of Sensory Physiology, Vol. 7/4, Visual Psychophysics (1973) (123)
The experimental determination of unique green in the spectrum (1968) (82)
Opponent-Response Functions Related to Measured Cone Photopigments* (1968) (76)
Some quantitative aspects of an opponent-colors theory. IV. A psychological color specification system. (1956) (75)
Color Vision Deficiencies (1972) (62)
Some quantitative aspects of an opponent-colors theory. III. Changes in brightness, saturation, and hue with chromatic adaptation. (1956) (59)
Receptoral and postreceptoral visual processes in recovery from chromatic adaptation. (1979) (55)
Color Adaptation: Sensitivity, Contrast, After-images (1972) (55)
Dichromatic color language: "reds" and "greens" don't look alike but their colors do. (1978) (54)
Differential Gustatory Sensitivity to Salt (1937) (54)
The binocular fusion of yellow in relation to color theories. (1951) (54)
Opponent processes as a model of neural organization. (1974) (48)
From Contrast to Assimilation: In Art and in the Eye (1975) (45)
A psychophysical study of white. I. Neutral adaptation. (1951) (44)
Handbook of Perception. Vol. 1, Historical and Philosophical Roots of Perception (1975) (42)
Theoretical analysis of anomalous trichromatic color vision. (1956) (38)
Temporal sensitivities related to color theory. (1984) (34)
Spectral sensitivity of the fovea. I. Neutral adaptation. (1953) (33)
Note on factors influencing the relation between stereoscopic acuity and observation distance. (1959) (33)
Studies of visual fatigue. (1942) (25)
A psychophysical study of white. III. Adaptation as variant. (1951) (25)
Perceived Color, Induction Effects, and Opponent-Response Mechanisms (1960) (24)
Spectral sensitivity of the fovea. II. Dependence on chromatic adaptation. (1953) (23)
Fixation-light bias: an unwanted by-product of fixation control. (1967) (22)
On the Discrimination of Minimal Differences in Weight: I. A Theory of Differential Sensitivity (1937) (22)
Use of spectral hue-invariant loci for the specification of white stimuli. (1951) (22)
Hering and the scientific establishment. (1969) (18)
Spectral sensitivity of the fovea. III. Heterochromatic brightness and chromatic adaptation. (1954) (17)
Visual Differential Sensitivity and Retinal Area (1938) (16)
A psychophysical study of white. II. Neutral adaptation; area and duration as variants. (1951) (14)
Opponent Chromatic Induction and Wavelength Discrimination (1961) (13)
Does anomalous color vision imply color weakness? (1964) (13)
Human color perception. An essay review. (1969) (8)
Opponent-Colors Theory and Physiological Mechanisms (1961) (8)
Improvable, yes; insoluble, no: A reply to Flock (1970) (8)
On the psychophysics of taste. I. Pressure and area as variants. (1938) (8)
New means of studying color blindness and normal foveal color vision. University of California publications in psychology. (1953) (7)
Green vision and binocular fusion of yellow. (1952) (7)
Helmholtz and the Three-Color Theory: An Historical Note (1949) (7)
A quantitative theoretical account of color vision. (1955) (7)
Colour vision deficiences III (1978) (5)
Contributions to color-discrimination theory: review, summary, and discussion. (1963) (5)
Color vision and color coding. (1970) (4)
Color theory and abnormal red-green vision (2004) (4)
THE EFFECT OF OXYGEN DEPRIVATION ON THE RELATION BETWEEN STIMULUS INTENSITY AND THE LATENCY OF VISUAL AFTER-IMAGES (1943) (4)
Talking about color (1990) (4)
Opponent-Colours Theory (1985) (3)
Levels of Adaptation and Brightness Changes During Color Adaptation. (1949) (3)
Evaluation of single pigment shifts in anomalous color vision. (1974) (3)
Psychophysics: Introduction to Its Perceptual, Neural and Social Prospects by S. S. Stevens (review) (2017) (2)
Hans-Lukas Teuber: August 7, 1916-January 4, 1977. (1987) (2)
The range of apprehension and sensory discrimination. (1940) (2)
Gunnar Svaetichin: man of vision. (1982) (2)
II – THE OPPONENT-PAIRS SCHEME (1960) (2)
HUMAN COLOR PERCEPTION (2016) (1)
Spectral sensitivity functions derived from brightness matching: implication of intensity invariance color-vision models--comment. (1987) (1)
Visual Psychophysics (1972) (1)
Nomenclature and definitions in colorimetry. (1954) (1)
Intermittent illumination and color vision testing. (1974) (1)
Helmholtz's Vision: Looking Backward. (1979) (1)
Comment on “Saturation estimates and chromatic adaptation” by Gerald H. Jacobs (1968) (0)
Leo M. Hurvich and Dorothea Jameson. (1989) (0)
Referees for the manuscripts received in 1980 (1981) (0)
Some little known aspects of Ewald Hering's scientific contributions (2010) (0)
Color plates. gray plates and intermittent illumination (1974) (0)
Letter: Color plates, gray plates and intermittent illumination. (1974) (0)
Influences of size, shape, retinal locus, and field structure on perceived color (A) (1979) (0)
Handbook of Perception. Vol. 3, Biology of Perceptual Systems (1974) (0)
Binocular Fusion of Colors. (1960) (0)
Two Little Knowns: A Color Exhibition and a Science Museum (1996) (0)
Binocular Fusion of Colors (1960) (0)
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977 (1973) (0)
Response : Green Vision and Binocular Fusion of Yellow (1952) (0)
Piéron on the Senses. (1956) (0)
Shutoff Pulse Illusion. (1959) (0)
A brief look back (1990) (0)
Vision: A Spectrum of Topics. (1967) (0)

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