Chromatic masking in the (ΔL/L, ΔM/M) plane of cone-contrast space reveals only two detection mechanisms

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 3913-3926

  Giulianini, Franco ^a   Eskew Jr , Rhea T ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatic detection; Chromatic masking; Higher order chromatic mechanism; Opponent mechanism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0031660692     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00068-6     Document Type: Article

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