title: Color appearance of mixture gratings.
abstract: We have examined how color appearance varies with spatial pattern. Subjects set color-matches between a uniform, 2 deg matching field and bars within squarewave patterns (1,2 and 4 c/deg) or the superposition of these squarewaves. The matches were set using squarewaves and squarewave mixtures with many different colors and contrasts. The color-matches satisfied the basic properties of a linear system to within a tolerance of twice the precision of repeated matches. Matches satisfied contrast-homogeneity: the contrast of the matching field was proportional to the contrast of the squarewave pattern or the mixture of squarewave patterns. Matches also satisfied pattern-superposition: if a bar in one squarewave matched one uniform field, and a bar in a second squarewave matched a second uniform field, the superposition of the two squarewave bars matched the superposition of the uniform matching fields. Matches are predicted by a model in which the color at a location is predicted by the responses of three linear, pattern-color separable mechanisms. As the individual mechanisms are pattern-color separable, meaningful pattern and color-responsivity functions can be estimated for each of the mechanisms. The estimated color-responsivity functions, based only on asymmetric color-matches, have an opponent-colors organization.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Psychologie, Universität Regensburg, Germany. heinz@rpss3.psychologie.uni-regensburg.de
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Bäuml
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Wandell
mesh_terms: 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*; D011601:Psychophysics