Abstract

Color information is processed by the retina and lateral geniculate along principal dimensions known as the cardinal directions of color space. Normal differences in spectral sensitivity can impact the stimulus directions that isolate these axes for individual observers and can arise from variation in lens and macular pigment density, photopigment opsins, photoreceptor optical density, and relative cone numbers. Some of these factors that influence the chromatic cardinal axes also impact luminance sensitivity. We modeled and empirically tested how well tilts on the individual’s equiluminant plane are correlated with rotations in the directions of their cardinal chromatic axes. Our results show that, especially for the SvsLM axis, the chromatic axes can be partially predicted by luminance settings, providing a potential procedure for efficiently characterizing the cardinal chromatic axes for observers.

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