A conjoint Grassmann structure for testing the additivity of binocular color mixtures (Q1092843)

Suppose that a subject is presented with two independent stimuli, one for each eye, such that both fuse and create a single image. If the two components of such dichoptic stimulus differ in color, then the fused color will generally be different from both stimulus colors as they appear under monocular observation. The response to monocular vision of color has been modelled by Grassmann structures. These are commutative semigroups with cancellation and an operation of scalar multiplication by positive reals. The author describes an extension of Grassman structures to binocular vision. The model predicts that the binocular structure is compatible with physical mixture of color stimuli. Experimental results of de Weert and Levelt (Vision research 16, 59-70) indicate that there is no such compatibility. The author concludes that binocular color matching fails to be additive.