What might happen to a person’s visual experiences of color, size, shape, orientation, motion, brightness, and other percepts if perceptual constancy did not occur? What would a person perceive?
Above is an example of lightness constancy. Look at the checkerboard scene on the left: Which squares do you perceive to be the same? If you are like most people, your visual system creates the perception that square A and C are different, and A and B are identical, even though (and now look at the […]