Foveal color perception: Minimal thresholds at a boundary between perceptual categories

Vision Research

Volumn 62, Issue , 2012, Pages 162-172

  Danilova, M V ^a,b   Mollon, J D ^b  

^a PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b Department of Experimental Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Category boundary; Color appearance; Color category; Color discrimination; Color opponent channel; Unique hue

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 84860543147     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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