Affiliation:
1. Upsala College, East Orange, NJ 07019, USA
2. Institute for Cognitive Studies, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Abstract
Observers were presented with target surfaces of varying luminance and asked to report whether they appeared luminous or opaque. In one experiment the targets were presented against three backgrounds, white, gray, and black. In another experiment the targets were presented within Mondrian patterns that were either brightly or dimly illuminated. The results indicate that, across a variety of conditions, a target begins to appear luminous when its luminance is about 1.7 times that of a surface that would appear white in the same illumination, whether or not a white surface is available in the visual field for comparison. Defined in this way the luminosity threshold exhibits the two main kinds of constancy characteristic of surface grays, constancy with respect to changes in the illumination level and constancy with respect to changes in the reflectance of the immediate background. This finding, while challenging a range of potential rules, places the problem of defining the conditions that produce luminosity squarely within the problem of lightness perception for opaque surfaces.
Subject
Artificial Intelligence,Sensory Systems,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,Ophthalmology
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