Evolutionary models of color categorization. I. Population categorization systems based on normal and dichromat observers

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

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1414-1423

  Jameson, Kimberly A ^a   Komarova, Natalia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL AGENTS; CATEGORIZATION SYSTEMS; COLOR-BOUNDARY; DICHROMATS; EVOLUTIONARY MODELS; HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS; ROTATIONAL INVARIANCES; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; TEST PERFORMANCE;

COLOR;

EID: 67650723293     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.26.001414     Document Type: Article

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