Estimation of linear detection mechanisms for stimuli of medium spatial frequency.
Detection thresholds were obtained for a circularly-symmetric Gabor profile and Craik-Cornsweet profiles presented on a large white adapting field. These stimuli possessed peak spatial power between 1 and 6 c/deg. Their contrast was represented in an L, M and S cone contrast space. Detection thresholds were obtained for many vectors close to specific but theoretically important planes within this space. These data were fitted with a model comprising independent mechanisms, each a weighted sum of cone contrasts. The fit revealed a chromatic mechanism driven by delta L/L-delta M/M with no S cone input. Within cone contrast space, this mechanism was more sensitive than both a luminance mechanism with little S cone input but considerable variation in relative L to M cone input, and a blue-yellow chromatic mechanism.
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Optical Sciences Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.
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D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology; D015350:Contrast Sensitivity / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D008959:Models, Neurological; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology; D012684:Sensory Thresholds / Q000502:physiology