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  • Title: Colour and luminance interact to improve pattern recognition.
    Author: Syrkin G, Gur M.
    Journal: Perception; 1997; 26(2):127-40. PubMed ID: 9274749.
    Abstract:
    The authors have previously hypothesised that colour vision has evolved not only to encode colour per se but also, perhaps principally, to enhance luminance-based visual processing so that for colour information to be fully effective, luminance as well as chromatic variations should be present in visual targets. Results of previous experiments, testing detection of spatial gratings and detection and perceived brightness of Mach bands support the hypothesis. Further experiments are reported in which the hypothesis was tested by using a higher-level task of pattern recognition. Subjects had to discriminate between luminance (isochromatic), isoluminant (chromatic), or combined colour/luminance ellipses and circles. It was found that the ability to discriminate between a circle and an ellipse was greatly enhanced when both colour and luminance variations were present as compared with the pure luminance or colour presentations. Summation-square analysis shows linear colour-luminance summation which can be modeled by a single-analyser model.
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