[Psychophysical study of simultaneous colour contrasts].
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The additivity of yellow chromatic valence was investigated by the hue cancellation method for two normal observers. Additivity held in 530-550 nm and 600-630 nm pairs, while additivity failure of reduction type occurred in 530-570 nm pair for both observers. Additivity failure of enhancement type occurred in 530-600 and 530-630 nm pairs in which one observer showed reduction type failure when mixture ratio of 530 nm is greater than 600 or 630 nm. The results suggest a nonlinear property of the yellow-blue process and are discussed in an interaction between the two opponent processes.
Simultaneous and successive methods of comparison of stimuli are studied by comparing experimental results of colour discrimination experiments. In this way, colour differential thresholds for two normal observers and four different stimuli were measured by the two methods. In most cases, the capacity to discriminate colour decreased when the successive method was used, although no differences were found in qualitative aspects of discrimination. These results differ somewhat from previous reports in this field, probably because of experimental differences in the method of obtaining the thresholds.
Three color-normal observers described the appearance of colors under conditions of temporal induction. One of four inducing fields (unique blue, unique green, unique yellow, unique white) was foveally viewed for 5 sec followed immediately by a 400 msec reference stimulus of the same size (0.75 deg) and spatial location as the inducing field. The reference stimulus was 3 or 5 td and appeared achromatic to the observer when viewed without the inducing field. After presentation of this temporal sequence, the observers described the reference stimulus by assigning percentages to the terms red, green, yellow, blue, white and black. The range of inducing field intensities was -0.4-3.2 log td. Both chromatic and achromatic induction occurred at low illuminance levels of the inducing fields. As the illuminance of the inducing field increased, the reference stimulus gradually became blacker and the chromatic components less prominent. The minimum illuminance level at which the reference appeared 100% black was the same for the four different inducing fields.
We have determined the transverse chromatic aberration of the human eye by measuring the apparent offset of a two-color vernier viewed foveally through a displaced, pinhole aperture. For the same subjects, we also determined the longitudinal chromatic aberration for foveal viewing by the method of best focus. In both cases, the results were closely predicted by a simple, reduced-eye optical-model for which transverse and longitudinal chromatic aberration are directly proportional, with the constant of proportionally being the amount of displacement of the pinhole from the visual axis. Further measurements revealed that the natural pupil was closely centered on the visual axis for two subjects and slightly displaced in the temporal direction for three other subjects. One implication of these results is that, although the eye has substantial chromatic aberration, the pupil is positioned so as to minimize the transverse component of the aberration for central vision, thereby optimizing foveal image quality for polychromatic objects.
A Benham disk was rotated at 7 c/sec and illuminated by monochromatic lights from the range 534-586 nm. The elicited colours of the rings were described either with a colour naming procedure or by matching with a Munsell chip. Exchanges of hues between the two extreme rings and between the two inner rings were reported around 557 and 566 nm by the colour naming procedure, thus resulting in a hue reversal in the spatial display of colours. Similar hue shifts were also reported with the matching procedure. The effect of a possible displacement in the equilibrium of colour-opponent cell population, resulting from chromatic adaptation, is discussed.
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The use of chromatic patterns that are equated for luminance has become increasingly popular in psychophysical and neurophysiological studies of visual processing. The currently available techniques for equating different colors for brightness rely upon human reports of perceptual events that are reduced at some luminance ratio. We report here the results of a study using a technique we have recently developed that produces a vivid and compelling motion percept only at isoluminance. That is, unlike previous methods, this technique relies upon a perceptual event (motion) that actually becomes more salient at isoluminance. We also observed that the optokinesis generated by the moving pattern mirrors the perceptual reports at all luminance ratios. If used in this manner, the technique can provide an estimate of chromatic isoluminance in a variety of species and can be used to corroborate a human subject's perceptual experience.
We used a new time-efficient method to evaluate chromatic-achromatic discrimination in newborn (n = 36) and 1-month-old (n = 34) human infants. Results showed that 74% of newborns discriminated a 10.5 x 17.5 deg broadband red patch from all relative luminances of an achromatic background, but only 14% of newborns did so with a blue, 36% with a green, and 25% with a yellow patch. Most infants who "failed" did so at relative luminances very close to the respective photopic luminance match. At 1 month, performance improved somewhat although infants still show clear evidence of discriminating only the red patch. These results, the first to be obtained from individual newborns with a method incorporating a systematic variation of luminance, imply that early color vision is very limited. Possible photoreceptoral and neural bases for these immaturities are discussed.
This paper describes computer graphics techniques for presenting visual stimuli in a vernier format composed out of coloured texture patterns. Such stimuli can be used to investigate the performance at the task of localising boundaries mediated by changes in colour and/or texture. We summarise the contents as follows: (1) Techniques for presenting visual stimuli are reviewed with a view to how they might be used to present colour and texture verniers. (2) The design of the vernier stimuli for the localisation task is considered. (3) Significant elements of this design are: (a) the use of non-isoplanatic textures to avoid interference effects at boundaries, (b) the modulation of the texture patterns along axes in MacLeod-Boynton colour space so that relative retinal cone contributions are controlled, and (c) the use of double-buffering, colour map manipulation, and contrast randomisation techniques to avoid problems commonly encountered when presenting computer graphics stimuli on colour monitors. (4) Results of a psychophysical experiment that presents colour and texture verniers are reported elsewhere.
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BACKGROUND: Intense photophobia is a debilitating symptom of the stationary cone dystrophies. The dark-tinted glasses with side-shields and floppy hats used to manage this are very conspicuous and can cause marked psychological morbidity to the children and their families. We assess the use of tinted contact lenses as an alternative management for the photophobia. METHODS: Three children, aged 5 to 13, with cone dystrophies, all with markedly reduced visual acuity, color vision, and profound photophobia were fitted with Lunelle ES70 Solaire 70% brown contact lenses. The child's parents completed two Children's Visual Function Questionnaires, the first pertaining to the period when the child wore tinted glasses; the second pertaining to the period of tinted contact lens wear. RESULTS: Subjectively, two of the children and their parents described a striking improvement in their quality of life, with improved confidence, interactions with other children, and cessation of name-calling and bullying. The Children's Visual Function Questionnaires gave objective evidence for this improvement in one child and was not significantly different in the other. The third child was reluctant to wear the contact lenses despite her parents' active encouragement. CONCLUSION: Tinted contact lenses offer an alternative management of the photophobia associated with stationary cone dystrophies in children. Marked improvements in their quality of life were observed in this case series.