A measurement of the adaptation of color vision to the spectral environment

被引:4
作者
Boker, SM
机构
[1] Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
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D O I
10.1111/j.1467-9280.1997.tb00695.x
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
An exploratory factor analysis of the reflectance spectral distributions of a sample of natural and man-made objects yields a factor pattern remarkably similar to psychophysical color-matching curves. The goodness-of-fit indices from a maximum likelihood confirmatory factor model with fixed factor loadings specified by empirical trichromatic color-matching data indicate that the human visual system performs near to an optimum value for an ideal trichromatic system composed of three linear components. An unconstrained four-factor maximum likelihood model fits significantly better than a three-factor unconstrained model, suggesting that a color metric is better represented in foul dimensions than in a three-dimensional space. This fourth factor can be calculated as a nonlinear interaction term between the first three factors; thus, a trichromatic input is sufficient to compute a color space of four dimensions. The visual system may exploit this nonlinear dependency in the spectral environment in order to obtain a four-dimensional color space without the biological cost of a fourth color receptor.
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页码:130 / 134
页数:5
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