Abstract

A study of the visual system is often divided into topics which are then treated as discrete fields. Two of these are spatial vision and color vision. Such an arbitrary division leads one to overlook the very important areas of intersections between the fields. This chapter considers the intersection between color vision and spatial vision. Topics discussed include color spatial contrast sensitivity function, significance of color CSFs for vision, whether color contrast sensitivity function reflects the filter characteristic of a single channel or the envelope of the sensitivities of multiple channels, and luminance-color interactions.