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Spatial-frequency-contingent color aftereffects: Adaptation with two-dimensional stimulus patterns

Perception & Psychophysics volume 51, pages 66–78 (1992)Cite this article

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The spatial-frequency theory of vision has been supported by adaptation studies using checkerboards in which contingent color aftereffects (CAEs) were produced at fundamental frequencies oriented at 45\dg to the edges. A replication of this study failed to produce CAEs at the orientation of either the edges or the fundamentals. Using a computer-generated display, no CAEs were produced by adaptation of a square or an oblique checkerboard. But when one type of checkerboard (4 cpd) was adapted alone, CAEs were produced on the adapted checkerboard and on sine-wave gratings aligned with the fundamental and third harmonics of the checkerboard spectrum. Adaptation of a coarser checkerboard (0.80 cpd) produced CAEs aligned with both the edges and the harmonic frequencies. With checkerboards of both frequencies, CAEs were also found on the other type of checkerboard that had not been adapted. This observation raises problems for any edge-detector theory of vision, because there was no adaptation to edges. It was concluded that spatial-frequency mechanisms are operating at both low- and high-spatial frequencies and that an edge mechanism is operative at lower frequencies. The implications of these results are assessed for other theories of spatial vision.

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Webster, W.R., Day, R.H., Gillies, O. et al. Spatial-frequency-contingent color aftereffects: Adaptation with two-dimensional stimulus patterns. Perception & Psychophysics 51, 66–78 (1992). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03205075

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Keywords

  • Harmonic Frequency
  • Color Aftereffect
  • McCollough Effect
  • Valois
  • Test Grating