Notes and References
- This paradox is discussed in a number of textbooks on seating. See for example: L. E. Marks, Sensory Processes, The New Psychophysics, Academic Press, New York (1974).
- Zwick, D. M. and Brothers, D. L., RMS Granularity: Determination of Just-Noticeable-Differences, Phot. Sci. Eng. 19, 235 (1975).
- Two recent descriptions of what is known or assumed about the mechanism of vision are: R. M. Boynton, Human Color Vision, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York (1979), and C. J. Bartleson, Mechanisms of Vision, in C. J. Bartleson and F. Grum (Eds), Optical Radiation Measurements, Volume 5, Visual Measurements, Academic Press, New York (1984).
- Zwick, D. M., Colour Granularity and Graininess. J. Phot. Sci., 11, 269 (1963).
- This method of data reduction is described in a number of textbooks on scaling. See for example: C. J. Bartleson, Measuring Differences, in C. J. Bartleson and F. Grum (editors), Optical Radiation Measurements, Volume 5, Visual Measurements, Academic Press, New York (1984).
- Judd, D. B., Report of the U.S. Secretariat, Committee on Colorimetry and Artificial Daylight, Proc. CIE, Part 7, Stockholm (1951).
- In addition to information contained in the two volumes of reference note 3 above, a thorough discussion of the spectral luminosity function and methods by which it can be determined can be found on pages 392–410 in: G. Wyszecki and W. S. Stiles, Color Science, Concepts and Methods, Quantitative Data and Formulae, Second Edition, Wiley-Interscience, New York (1982).
- See for example: S. S. Stevens, Psychophysics, Introduction to its Perceptual, Neural, and Social Prospects, Wiley-Interscience, New York (1975).
- Two of the most germane summaries are: G. A. Miller, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Capacity for Processing Information, Psychol. Rev., 63, 81 (1956) and K. H. Norwich, The Magical Number Seven: Making a ‘Bit’ of ‘Sense’, Percept. Psychophysics, 29, 409 (1981).