On the binocular summation of chromatic contrast.
The binocular summation of chromatic contrast was investigated under a variety of stimulus conditions. Binocular and monocular contrast detection thresholds were measured using 0.5 cpd Gabor patches. It was found that, using stimuli which contained combinations of chromatic and luminance contrast, binocular detection could take place independently in luminance-contrast- and chromatic-contrast-sensitive mechanisms. It was also found that, with chromatic stimuli, levels of binocular summation were above those expected from probability summation between the eyes, and thus showed evidence for binocular neural summation within chromatic detection mechanisms. The implications of these results for (a) the binocularity of chromatic detection mechanisms, and (b) the suggested link between stereopsis and binocular neural summation, are discussed.
Department of Vision Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, U.K. D.R.Simmons@gcal.ac.uk
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