Spectral Sensitivity of Color Mechanisms: Derivation from Fluctuations of Color Appearance near Threshold
- 10 December 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 150 (3702) , 1477-1479
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.150.3702.1477
Abstract
A method for determining the spectral sensitivity of the different color mechanisms of the human eye uses the pattern of color names applied to small, brief, dim, monochromatic flashes. Such responses are often due to the activation of single neural units. Preliminary spectral sensitivity curves for two color mechanisms have been obtained.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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