| Perceived duration of chromatic and achromatic light. | |
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PMID: 22133595 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Luminance and color information are considered to be processed in parallel systems. The integration of information from these two separate systems is crucial for the visual system to produce a coherent percept. To investigate how luminance and color lights are perceived in time, we measured the perceived duration of light stimuli with and without colors in a paradigm involving simultaneous perception with presentation of two successive stimulus frames. Luminance contrast and color contrast of the stimuli were set with a chromatic substitution technique. In Experiment 1, the perceived duration of both chromatic stimuli and achromatic stimuli increased as the luminance contrast decreased. Experiment 2 tested if the duration of the percept was influenced by color contrast which was defined by colorimetric purity of the stimuli, when luminance contrast was set as low as practically possible. The result showed that the duration of the percept decreased with increasing color contrast of the stimuli. Moreover, Experiment 3 demonstrated that the trend of perceived duration was consistent with the four primary colors, provided that the effective color contrast of stimulus was corrected based on the contrast sensitivity to the color. These experiments indicate that, with a high luminance contrast level, perceived duration of a stimulus is predominantly defined by luminance contrast, whereas in low luminance contrast conditions, the duration depends on the color contrast. The perceived duration of color stimuli showed an "inverse color contrast effect", similar to the well-known "inverse intensity effect" for luminance stimuli. The similarities and the differences between the two systems, as well as their priorities in processing temporal information of visual stimuli are further discussed. |
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Authors:
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Haruyuki Kojima; Yasuhiro Kawabata |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-11-22 |
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Title: Vision research Volume: - ISSN: 1878-5646 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Nov |
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Created Date: 2011-12-2 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0417402 Medline TA: Vision Res Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Faculty of Human Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan. |
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