Journal article

Publication year: 2009

Journal: Journal of Vision

Volume number: 9

Issue number: 9

ISSN: 1534-7362

Open access status: Gold

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1167/9.9.11

Publisher: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

Abstract: 
Color discrimination is influenced by chromatic distributions such as they appear on differently illuminated 3D surfaces ( T. Hansen, M. Giesel, & K. R. Gegenfurtner, 2008). Here, we measured discrimination thresholds for chromatically variegated stimuli and modeled the data employing a model with multiple chromatic mechanisms. Each mechanism has a differently tuned half-wave-rectified cosine-shaped sensitivity profile centered at a different chromatic direction. To estimate thresholds, the model's responses to a test and a comparison stimulus are determined. A detection variable is calculated by taking the difference of the responses to the two stimuli and by a subsequent nonlinear combination of the responses. The model was. fitted to the data presented in T. Hansen et al. ( 2008) and to data from two new experiments. In the. first experiment, we measured discrimination thresholds for stimuli chromatically variegated along a direction orthogonal to the one used in the previous experiments. In the second experiment, we investigated the interplay between chromatic distributions and different mean contrast levels. We found that a model with eight mechanisms accounted for the effect of chromatic variation within the stimuli and provided a better. fit to the discrimination thresholds than a four mechanisms model.

Harvard Citation style: Giesel, M., Hansen, T. and Gegenfurtner, K. (2009) The discrimination of chromatic textures, Journal of Vision, 9(9), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1167/9.9.11

APA Citation style: Giesel, M., Hansen, T., & Gegenfurtner, K. (2009). The discrimination of chromatic textures. Journal of Vision. 9(9), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1167/9.9.11