Test of models of achromatic transparency.
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چکیده
Consider an achromatic disk transparent on an achromatic background formed by two adjoining rectangles, with the common border of the rectangles dividing the disk in half. Current models of achromatic transparency contend that the perceived extent of transparency of the disk depends on the luminance contrast inside the disk and on the luminance contrast in the background outside the disk. Here, a model is proposed which contends that this perceived extent is determined only by the luminance contrasts inherent in the disk: inside the disk and between the disk and the background. Two experiments were designed to determine which luminance contrasts influence transparency. In the first experiment, subjects rated the perceived extent of transparency of the disk for different combinations of the luminances of the disk and of the background. The results strengthen the view that the perceived extent of transparency depends on the luminance contrasts inherent in the disk. In the second experiment, a test was made of the possibility that luminance contrasts between adjoining areas of the background outside the disk are nonessential for transparency. The results show that transparency occurred both when the areas of the background outside the transparent region adjoined one another and when they were separated, confirming that the perceived extent of transparency depended only on luminance contrasts between adjoining areas inherent in the disk.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Perception
دوره 35 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006