title: What does post-adaptation color appearance reveal about cortical color representation?
abstract: We examine the implications of the hypothesis that color information in the cortex is adaptively coded into a factorial (statistically independent) and gain-controlled representation. We show that this hypothesis explains the results of the recent experiments by Webster and Mollon [(1991) Nature, 349, 235-238] on changes in color appearance following post-receptoral adaptation. We also give a neural network with a deterministically convergent, unsupervised learning algorithm that reproduces the adaptation observed.
authors.affiliation: School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Atick
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Redlich
mesh_terms: D000221:Adaptation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D000465:Algorithms; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology