August 2010
Volume 10, Issue 7
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Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Abstract  |   August 2010
Dimensions of preattentive visual sensitivity in human color space
Author Affiliations
  • Chuan-Chin Chiao
    Department of Life Science & Institute of Systems Neuroscience, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • Charles Chubb
    Department of Cognitive Sciences & Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California at Irvine, USA
Journal of Vision August 2010, Vol.10, 1359. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/10.7.1359
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      Chuan-Chin Chiao, Charles Chubb; Dimensions of preattentive visual sensitivity in human color space. Journal of Vision 2010;10(7):1359. https://doi.org/10.1167/10.7.1359.

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Abstract

This study used texture discrimination tasks to investigate preattentive visual sensitivity to equiluminant chromatic variations. Specifically, we looked for evidence of “half-cardinal-axis” mechanisms in DKL space - i.e., mechanisms sensitive exclusively to variations between neutral gray and each of the red and green poles of the L-M axis and the blue and yellow poles of the S-(L+M) axis. Observers strove to discriminate spatially random mixtures of colors called scrambles. A given scramble is characterized by its color histogram. The preattentive sensitivity space of a set C of colors is the space of histogram differences people can discriminate given a brief display. The dimensionality of this space gives the number of preattentive mechanisms sensitive to C variations. In these experiments, briefly presented stimuli comprised alternating bars of scramble differing in histogram, and observers had to judge bar pattern orientation. We used a new method called “iterated seed-expansion” to obtain a basis of the sensitivity space for each of 6 different sets of colors: a set drawn from each of the half-DKL-cardinal-axes in the equiluminant plane and also from each of the full L-M and S-(L+M) cardinal axes. For each of these sets C, the sensitivity space proved to be two-dimensional, with one basis element showing linear and the other parabolic sensitivity for the colors in C. This suggests that associated with each full-cardinal-axis is one linear mechanism L and one second-order mechanism S derived from the L output. Our results support the idea that for any element x in the scramble, S(x) is proportional to the squared difference between L(x) and the mean L-output in the neighborhood of x. These same two mechanisms suffice to account for discrimination of half-axis scrambles; thus, we find no evidence for separate half-axis mechanisms.

Xu, C.-C. Tsien, C. (2010). Dimensions of preattentive visual sensitivity in human color space [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 10(7):1359, 1359a, http://www.journalofvision.org/content/10/7/1359, doi:10.1359/10.7.1359. [CrossRef]
Footnotes
 The National Science Council of Taiwan, NSC-97-2918-I-007-004 & NSC-98-2628-B-007-001-MY3 NSF BCS-0843897.
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