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Induced contrast asynchronies may be useful for luminance photometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2005

ARTHUR G. SHAPIRO,
ANTHONY D'ANTONA,
JARED B. SMITH,
LINDSAY A. BELANO and
JUSTIN P. CHARLES
ARTHUR G. SHAPIRO
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg
ANTHONY D'ANTONA
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago IL
JARED B. SMITH
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg
LINDSAY A. BELANO
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg
JUSTIN P. CHARLES
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg
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Abstract

Shapiro et al. (2004) introduced a new visual effect (the induced contrast asynchrony) that demonstrates a perceptual separation between the response to a modulated light and the response to contrast of the light relative to background. The effect is composed of two physically identical disks, one surrounded by a dark annulus and the other by a light annulus. The luminance levels of both central disks were modulated in time, producing a stimulus with in-phase luminance modulation and antiphase contrast modulation. Observers primarily perceived the disks to be modulating asynchronously (i.e. they perceived the contrast), but at low temporal frequencies could also track the luminance level. Here we document that the induced contrast asynchrony disappears when the surrounds are achromatic and the center lights are modulated near the equiluminant axis. Observers viewed 1-deg-diameter disks embedded 2-deg-diameter achromatic surrounds. The chromaticity of the disks was modulated in time (1 Hz) along lines in an S versus Luminance cardinal color plane and an L-M versus Luminance cardinal color plane; observers responded as to whether the modulation appeared in phase. For all observers and both color planes, the lights appeared in phase most frequently at angles near the standard observer's equiluminant line and out of phase at angles further away from that line. Observers differed in the range of angles that produce the appearance of in-phase modulation. The results suggest that induced contrast asynchronies may be useful as a technique for equating luminance of disparate lights.

Keywords

simultaneous contrastcolor contrastcolor inductionphotometryequiluminancecolor visionillusions

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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , May 2004, pp. 243 - 247
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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