Abstract
At low spatial frequencies, the perceived brightness of the light phase of a stationary square-wave grating is greater than the brightness of a solid field of equal physical luminance. That increase in the perceived brightness of a grating at low spatial frequencies is analogous to the brightness enhancement observed in a flickering light at low temporal frequencies. At or above the critical spatial frequency—the visual resolution threshold—the brightness of a grating is determined by its space-average luminance, just as the brightness of a flickering light at or above the critical flicker frequency is determined by its time-average luminance in accordance with Talbot’s law. Thus, Talbot’s law applies in the spatial as well as the temporal domain. The present study adds to the evidence that temporal and spatial frequency play analogous roles in some aspects of brightness vision.
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