Abstract

Peripheral and central moving objects of the same color may be perceived to move in the same direction even though peripheral objects have a different true direction of motion [Nature 429, 262 (2004) [CrossRef]  ]. The perceived, illusory direction of peripheral motion is a color-motion feature-binding error. Recent work shows that such binding errors occur even without an exact color match between central and peripheral objects, and, moreover, the frequency of the binding errors in the periphery declines as the chromatic difference increases between the central and peripheral objects [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 31, A60 (2014) [CrossRef]  ]. This change in the frequency of binding errors with the chromatic difference raises the general question of the chromatic representation from which the difference is determined. Here, basic properties of the chromatic representation are tested to discover whether it depends on independent chromatic differences on the $l$ and the $s$ cardinal axes or, alternatively, on a more specific higher-order chromatic representation. Experimental tests compared the rate of feature-binding errors when the central and peripheral colors had the identical $s$ chromaticity (so zero difference in $s$) and a fixed magnitude of $l$ difference, while varying the identical $s$ level in center and periphery (thus always keeping the $s$ difference at zero). A chromatic representation based on independent $l$ and $s$ differences would result in the same frequency of color-motion binding errors at every $s$ level. The results are contrary to this prediction, thus showing that the chromatic representation at the level of color-motion feature binding depends on a higher-order chromatic mechanism.

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