Color from invisible flicker. A failure of the Talbot-Plateau law caused by an early 'hard' saturating nonlinearity used to partition the human short-wave cone pathway

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 3703-3728

  Stockman, Andrew ^a   Plummer, Daniel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Flicker; Nonlinearity; S cones; Talbot Plateau law; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; MALE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031663786     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00049-2     Document Type: Article

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