Luminance contrast was found to affect high-spatial-frequency tritanopia despite the S-cone coordinates of the stimuli being kept constant. This proves that a traditional account of artificial tritanopias based on the spatial resolution differences between the S-cone channel and the M-and L-cone channels is not applicable here. We suggest that the lack of spatial resolution in one of the post-receptor (rather than receptor) spatio-chromatic channels could be a cause of high-spatial-frequency tritanopia.
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