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Large shifts in color appearance from patterned chromatic backgrounds
Patrick Monnier1, Steven K Shevell
1Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, 940 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Nature Neuroscience
|July 23, 2003
Abstract:
The perceived color of a light varies with the background on which it is seen. In the present study, patterned backgrounds composed of two different chromaticities caused larger shifts in perceived color than did a uniform background at either chromaticity within the pattern. Cortical receptive-field organization, but not optical factors or known retinal neurons, can account for the color shifts from patterned backgrounds.