A study on color information corrected in human brain — Measurement and evaluation of color propagation

Abstract

There exists a well-known visual illusion with respect to color propagation. That is, a human subject confuses a color in the subject's peripheral field of view (FOV) as another color in the central FOV (with a shape of circular disk) spreads into the peripheral FOV or as a color in the peripheral FOV erodes another color in the central FOV (also with a shape of circular disk) when he/she keeps gazing at a specific color visual stimulus in his/her central FOV for more than several seconds. In this paper, the authors experiment this illusion using multiple naive subjects in conditions of the visual stimuli as the central or peripheral colors and the disk size change. This paper has proposed a rate of propagation as a criterion and has analyzed and discussed the illusion using it.