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ARE human visual responses to scenes of constant luminance paralleled by those to scenes of constant chromaticity? This question is of particular interest since MacNichol and Svaetichin have shown1 that the responses to luminance and chromaticity are separated at the retinal level in the goldfish, and De Valois has shown that they are partly separated in the lateral geniculate body of the monkey2.
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DAW, N. Visual Response to Gradients of Varying Colour and Equal Luminance. Nature 203, 215–216 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203215a0
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