title: Motion at isoluminance: discrimination/detection ratios and the summation of luminance and chromatic signals.
abstract: Under some conditions, direction-of-motion thresholds are elevated with respect to detection thresholds for isoluminant chromatic stimuli. In the present study we investigated the effect of small luminance mismatches on ratios of direction-of-motion thresholds to detection thresholds (M/D ratios). The stimuli were 2 deg x 2 deg patches of a moving 1-cycle/deg, 2.75-deg/s sinusoidal grating, modulated spatially in luminance, chromaticity, or both. M/D ratios were close to 1 except when luminance modulation was < 1%, defined with respect to the individual subject's isoluminance point; in this range M/D ratios varied from 1.5 to 4.4. Sets of thresholds for both detection and motion tasks conformed approximately to ellipses. Thus, although motion processing shows a differential loss of sensitivity at isoluminance, similar summation rules appear to apply to the combination of luminance and chromatic signals for both tasks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Palmer
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Mobley
authors.forename: D Y
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Teller
mesh_terms: D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D011601:Psychophysics; D012684:Sensory Thresholds