Shifts in the appearance of color under different illuminant chromaticity are known to be incomplete, and fit nicely with a simple linear transformation of cone responses that aligns the achromatic points under two illuminants. Most chromaticity-transfer functions with von-Kries-like transformations use only one set of values to fit the color shifts from one illuminant to another. However, an a...

The articulation effect refers to a change in lightness contrast induced by adding small patches of different luminances to a uniform background surrounding a target in a lightness contrast display. This study investigated how local luminance signals are integrated to generate the articulation effect. We asked whether spatial organization due to perceptual grouping can influence the articulatio...

This study investigated the individual differences of lightness filling-in on illusory contour figures with regard to the attention to figures; namely, to which information of hierarchical figures, the global information or the local information, subjects tended to allocate their attention. Subjects participated in a preliminary experiment to divide into a global group and a local group. The gl...

Two experiments were performed to relate the Bezold-Brücke (B-B) and lightness compression effects. The first used a calibrated screen to present an achromatic luminance staircase. In addition, it reproduced, the methodology and the essential aspects the lightness compression effect discovered by Cataliotti and Gilchrist (1995). That is, observers perceived a truncated grey scale (from white to...

The effect of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) essential oil (REO) and modified-atmosphere packaging (MAP) on the survival of certain pathogens (Salmonella Typhimurium and Listeria monocytogenes) in poultry fillets and on their meat quality during 7 days of refrigerated storage were investigated. Because REO at 0.05% and 0.1% had weak antibacterial activity and REO at 0.3%, 0.5% and 1.0% im...

For the first time, in the present study, a new approach of using the color properties of acid red 18 decolourization behavior by synthetized nano photocatalytic TiO2-Ag2O. In this manner two color system (CIE L*a*b* and CIE L*C*h°) used to calculate the color properties (lightness, Chroma and hue) of samples during the decomposition process. MATLAB software was used to transfer absorbance data...

A key challenge for the visual system is to extract constant object properties from incoming sensory information. This information is ambiguous because the same sensory signal can arise from many combinations of object properties and viewing conditions and noisy because of the variability in sensory encoding. The competing accounts for perceptual constancy of surface lightness fall into two cla...

Meat quality and (anti)oxidative metabolism of m. pectoralis superficialis (MPS), m. gastrocnemius (MG) and m. iliotibilialis lateralis (MIL) from turkey toms were analysed. After slaughter, pH of MPS and MG decreased and electrical conductivity of the MPS increased. The MG had generally higher pH values. The meat lightness (L) and redness (a) increased in MG and MPS after slaughter. The MPS al...

The visual system's computation of lightness (perceived reflectance) leads to contrast effects in which a gray target region appears lighter on a black background than on a white one. Here we show a paradoxical contrast effect in which targets look lighter after adding regions that increase the scene's average luminance, and darker after adding regions that decrease this luminance. The paradoxi...

Most vision scientists are comfortable with the idea that perception is a multi-level process. For example we take it for granted that the two best understood properties of human colour vision, trichromacy and colour-opponency, are underpinned by physiological mechanisms operating at different stages in the visual pathway. The observation that any colour can be matched by a suitable mixture of ...