Illusory spreading of watercolor

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 625-633

  Devinck, Frédéric ^a,b   Hardy, Joseph L ^c   Delahunt, Peter B ^c   Spillmann, Lothar ^d   Werner, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Posit Science Corporation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color assimilation; Colorimetric purity; Cone modulated pattern; Hue; Watercolor effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RETINA CONE; RETINA IMAGE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33646705152     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.5.7     Document Type: Article

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