The highest luminance anchoring rule in achromatic color perception: Some counterexamples and an alternative theory

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 983-1003

  Rudd, Michael E ^a   Zemach, Iris K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Achromatic color; Brightness; Edge integration; Highest luminance rule; Induction; Lightness; Lightness anchoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR VISION; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT INTERCEPTION; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINA IMAGE; THEORY VALIDATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33644846760     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.11.5     Document Type: Article

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