Volume 7, Number 15, Abstract 6, Page 6a doi:10.1167/7.15.6 http://journalofvision.org/7/15/6/ ISSN 1534-7362
Testing color vision models that incorporate rod influence
Steven Buck
Psychology, University of Washington
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Abstract

We have previously shown that rod signals influence the balance of both red-green and blue-yellow opponent hue dimensions, but in a pattern that is inconsistent with simple additive combinations of rod and cone signals in opponent-color models (e.g., rods can produce both a red bias and a green bias). The shifts are instead consistent with non-linear models in which rod influence requires non-zero cone signals. Here we challenge this model with new data on the time-course of the rod hue biases. The rod green bias (typically 5-15 nm) and rod blue bias (typically 20-30 nm) observed near unique yellow and unique green, respectively, were not systematically affected by test stimulus duration. Near unique blue, rods exerted a green bias (typically 5-10 nm), for test stimuli less than 50 ms, and a red bias (typically 5-15 nm) for longer test stimulus durations. The rod red bias reached asymptote for all observers within 50 ms. We find that the model accommodates well the group-averaged results but that there are important individual differences among the observers that pose challenges to be addressed in future.

History
Received November 22, 2007; published December 31, 2007
Citation
Buck, S. (2007). Testing color vision models that incorporate rod influence [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 7(15):6, 6a, http://journalofvision.org/7/15/6/, doi:10.1167/7.15.6.
Keywords
Color vision, rod-cone interaction, hue perception
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