The watercolor illusion and neon color spreading: A unified analysis of new cases and neural mechanisms

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2207-2221

  Pinna, Baingio ^a   Grossberg, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CORRELATION METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; TRANSPARENCY;

COLOR TRANSITION; FIGURE-GROUND EFFECTS; NEON COLOR SPREADING; NEURAL MECHANISMS; WATERCOLOR ILLUSION;

COLOR VISION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA CONE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; CONES (RETINA); CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 28344457427     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.002207     Document Type: Article

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