Testing the indeterminacy of linear color mechanisms from color discrimination data

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 295-306

  Knoblauch, Kenneth ^a,b   Maloney, Laurence T ^c  

^a Lighthouse Inc   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Color discrimination; Crozier's Law

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029655502     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00098-K     Document Type: Article

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