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Luminance

P Lennie1, J Pokorny, V C Smith

  • 1Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, New York 14627.

Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics and Image Science
|June 1, 1993
PubMed
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Human vision uses various spectral-sensitivity functions, but few match the standard V(λ) for photometry. Methods resembling V(λ) often filter out short-wavelength cone signals, suggesting specific visual pathways are involved.

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Area of Science:

  • Vision Science
  • Photometry
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Luminance, a photometric measure, is analogous to radiance and implies an additive spectral-luminosity function for human observers.
  • The standard spectral-luminosity function V(λ) is crucial for practical photometry, but human vision exhibits diverse spectral-sensitivity functions.
  • Few methods yield spectral-sensitivity functions that closely approximate the additive V(λ).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the characteristics of spectral-sensitivity functions in human vision.
  • To understand why certain psychophysical methods yield spectral sensitivities closely resembling the standard V(λ) function.
  • To explore the underlying visual mechanisms, including postreceptoral pathways, that contribute to measured spectral sensitivities.

Main Methods:

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  • Analysis of psychophysical techniques used to measure spectral sensitivity.
  • Comparison of spectral-sensitivity functions obtained through different methods.
  • Consideration of physiological recordings from the macaque visual pathway, particularly the magnocellular and parvocellular systems.

Main Results:

  • Methods yielding spectral sensitivities similar to V(λ) often employ spatial or temporal frequencies that attenuate signals from short-wavelength-sensitive cones or other chromatic pathways.
  • Differences in results across techniques may relate to chromatic adaptation states and the specific postreceptoral mechanisms engaged by different tasks.
  • Physiological data suggest the magnocellular system's properties align with spectral sensitivities measured by heterochromatic flicker photometry, minimally distinct border, and critical flicker fusion, which closely resemble V(λ).

Conclusions:

  • Psychophysical methods that produce spectral sensitivities approximating V(λ) likely rely on specific neural pathways, such as the magnocellular system.
  • Other spectral sensitivity measurement methods appear to engage the parvocellular system.
  • The nature of postreceptoral mechanisms remains debated, with evidence supporting both three-mechanism and multiple-mechanism models.