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The flicker fusion frequency of the blue‐sensitive mechanism of colour vision
Author(s) -
Brindley G. S.,
Du Croz J. J.,
Rushton W. A. H.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
the journal of physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.802
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1469-7793
pISSN - 0022-3751
DOI - 10.1113/jphysiol.1966.sp007879
Subject(s) - flicker fusion threshold , luminance , flicker , fusion , optics , blue light , physics , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , operating system
1. The flicker fusion frequency for blue stimuli on zero background increases steadily with increasing luminance up to 50 c/s, but if a strong yellow background is added it increases steadily only to about 18 c/s, and then remains nearly independent of luminance over a range of a factor of 20. 2. It is argued that the maximum flicker fusion frequency is about three times lower for the blue‐sensitive mechanism of colour vision than for the red‐ or green‐sensitive.