1. Clifford, C. W. & Rhodes, G. (eds) Fitting the Mind to the World Adaptation and After-Effects in High-Level Vision (Oxford University Press, 2005). This book comprehensively covers a wealth of aspects of and perspectives on adaptation, ranging from orientation to high level processing (such as of faces), and from physiology to perception and functional perspectives.
2. Wohlgemuth, A. On the after-effect of seen movement. Bri. J. Psychol. (Suppl.) 1, 1–117 (1911).
3. Adelson, E. H. in The New Cognitive Neurosciences (ed. Gazzaniga, M.) 339–351 (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000).
4. Eagleman, D. M., Jacobson, J. E. & Sejnowski, T. J. Perceived luminance depends on temporal context. Nature 428, 854–856 (2004).
5. Gibson, J. J. Adaptation, after-effect, and contrast in the perception of tilted lines. J. Exp. Psychol. 20, 553–569 (1937). Pioneering paper that introduced the tilt after-effect, a striking perceptual effect that has been studied intensively over the years.