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Bibliography for Vision, Color, and Seeing Bibliography for Vision, Color, and Seeing Abney, William (1910) On the changes in hue of spectrum colours by dilution with white light. Proceedings of the Royal Society London 83, 120-127. [color] [hue] [saturation] Abrams, Richard A.; and Landgraf, Jonathan Z. (1990) Differential use of distance and location information for spatial localization. Perception and Psychophysics, 47, 349-359. Addams, Robert (1834) An account of a peculiar optical phenomenon seen after having looked at a moving body. London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 5, 373-374. Adelson, Edward H. (1993) Perceptual organization and the judgment of brightness. Science, 262, 2042-2044. Adelson, Edward H.; and Bergen, James R. (1985) Spatiotemporal energy models perception of motion. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Image Science, and Vision, 2, 284- 299. Aglioti, Salvatore J.; DeSouza, Joseph F. X.; and Goodale, Melvyn A. 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