Definition
Color assimilation is somewhat considered the opposite of the color contrast: the color is perceived in the direction of the hue of the surrounding color, whereas in color contrast the perceived color tends to be the complementary color. Assimilation can be experienced also in grayscale stimuli and it is called lightness assimilation or brightness assimilation. In this case a gray is perceived lighter if it is close to a light object and darker if it is close to a darker object which is, again, the opposite of the simultaneous contrast.
Introduction
According to a naive physicalism, the physical stimulus should present a direct relationship with its mental correlate. Visual illusions (e.g. [1–3]) indicate, however, that physical manipulations of a stimulus do not directly determine the perceptual experience [4]. The existence of visual illusions has been already reported by ancient philosophers and they were...
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Gori, S. (2015). Assimilation. In: Luo, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_272-1
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