OSCR

Perceptual and neural constraints on photometric measures of heterochromatic brightness.

Overview

Authors: Shuchen Guan1, Jing Chen2, Robert Ennis1, Matteo Toscani3, Matteo Valsecchi4, Andrea van Doorn1,5, Jan Koenderink1,5,6, Karl R Gegenfurtner1
ORCID iDs: Shuchen Guan, Matteo Valsecchi, Andrea van Doorn, Jan Koenderink, Karl R Gegenfurtner
  1. Department of Psychology and Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen 35394, Germany
  2. School of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China
  3. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole BH12 5BB, United Kingdom
  4. Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna 40127, Italy
  5. Department of Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584 CS, the Netherlands
  6. Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium
Institutions: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Germany); Shanghai University of Sport (China); Bournemouth University (United Kingdom); University of Bologna (Italy); Utrecht University (Netherlands); KU Leuven (Belgium)
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 123, issue 34, article e2610398123
Dates: received 24 March 2026; accepted 23 July 2026; published online 19 August 2026; in print 25 August 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Identifiers: DOI 10.1073/pnas.2610398123 · PMID 42616779 · PMCID PMC13506033 · OpenAlex W7203761736
Open access: hybrid, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: data only
Categories: optical imaging (calcium, voltage, 2-photon) (modality), human (organism), cognitive (subfield)
Methods: Connectivity
Keywords: luminance, photometric standards, color, heterochromatic brightness, lighting
MeSH: Color Perception*, Heterochromatin*, Photometry*, Color, Humans, Light, Photic Stimulation (* major topic)
Topic: Visual perception and processing mechanisms (Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience), according to OpenAlex
Funding: EC | Horizon Europe | Excellent Science | HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council (ERC) (884116); European Research Council (884116); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (533717223)
Citations: cited by 1 paper (Europe PMC); 49 references in the paper

Abstract

The abstract is not reproduced here: the paper's license (CC BY-NC-ND) does not allow it. Read it in the paper, at the publisher or on Europe PMC.

Code

The paper links to its data, not to its authors' code: see the Data section.

The paper's code and data availability statement is in the Data section.

Tracing map

A tracing map links a paper to the code its authors published: this paper has none, so it has no map.

Data

Datasets cited

  • osf:65bwf, at OSF; found in “Data, Materials, and Software Availability”

Code and data availability statement

The paper has a code and data availability statement. Its license (CC BY-NC-ND) does not allow reproducing it here; in short, from what the harvester recognized in it:

Read it in the paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2610398123.

Versions

The history of this record: each version stored by the harvester or made by a correction of its authors or of the maintainers of its code, and what changed in its facts. The texts of the paper (its abstract, its availability statements) are not part of it; versions that changed only those are not listed.

Version 1, 27 September 2026: the first record

Recorded: type, language, journal, volume, issue, pages, dates, 8 authors, 5 keywords, 7 MeSH terms, 3 funders, 25 references.

Cite

This paper

Guan, S., Chen, J., Ennis, R., Toscani, M., Valsecchi, M., van Doorn, A., Koenderink, J., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2026). Perceptual and neural constraints on photometric measures of heterochromatic brightness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(34), e2610398123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2610398123

BibTeX

@article{guan2026perceptual,
author = {Guan, Shuchen and Chen, Jing and Ennis, Robert and Toscani, Matteo and Valsecchi, Matteo and van Doorn, Andrea and Koenderink, Jan and Gegenfurtner, Karl R},
title = {{Perceptual and neural constraints on photometric measures of heterochromatic brightness}},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
volume = {123},
number = {34},
pages = {e2610398123},
publisher = {National Academy of Sciences},
issn = {0027-8424},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.2610398123},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2610398123},
pmid = {42616779},
pmcid = {PMC13506033}
}

RIS

TY - JOUR
AU - Guan, Shuchen
AU - Chen, Jing
AU - Ennis, Robert
AU - Toscani, Matteo
AU - Valsecchi, Matteo
AU - van Doorn, Andrea
AU - Koenderink, Jan
AU - Gegenfurtner, Karl R
TI - Perceptual and neural constraints on photometric measures of heterochromatic brightness
T2 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
J2 - Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/19
VL - 123
IS - 34
SP - e2610398123
SN - 0027-8424
PB - National Academy of Sciences
DO - 10.1073/pnas.2610398123
UR - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2610398123
LA - en
ER -

CSL-JSON

{
"id": "10.1073/pnas.2610398123",
"type": "article-journal",
"title": "Perceptual and neural constraints on photometric measures of heterochromatic brightness",
"container-title": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America",
"author": [
{
"family": "Guan",
"given": "Shuchen"
},
{
"family": "Chen",
"given": "Jing"
},
{
"family": "Ennis",
"given": "Robert"
},
{
"family": "Toscani",
"given": "Matteo"
},
{
"family": "Valsecchi",
"given": "Matteo"
},
{
"family": "van Doorn",
"given": "Andrea"
},
{
"family": "Koenderink",
"given": "Jan"
},
{
"family": "Gegenfurtner",
"given": "Karl R"
}
],
"container-title-short": "Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A",
"volume": "123",
"issue": "34",
"page": "e2610398123",
"DOI": "10.1073/pnas.2610398123",
"PMID": "42616779",
"PMCID": "PMC13506033",
"ISSN": "0027-8424",
"publisher": "National Academy of Sciences",
"URL": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2610398123",
"language": "en",
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
2026,
8,
19
]
]
}
}

Similar papers

The papers with a page that share the most with this one: the tools found in their code, their categories, datasets, cited references and authors, the rarest counting most.

[1] doi:10.1126/sciadv.aec6658 [code]
A unifying principle of chromatic coding across biological and artificial systems.
Journal: Science advances
In common: 7 references, author Karl R. Gegenfurtner
[2] doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02445-0 [code]
Human gloss perception reproduced by tiny neural networks.
Journal: Nature human behaviour
In common: cognitive, author Karl R. Gegenfurtner
[3] doi:10.1126/sciadv.aea3919 [code]
Hierarchical brain dynamics supporting visual perceptual transitions.
Journal: Science advances
In common: cognitive, 1 reference
[4] doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcag218 [code]
Magnetoencephalography biomarkers for assessing myelin content and neuronal function in acute optic neuritis.
Journal: Brain communications
In common: 1 reference
[5] doi:10.1007/s11920-026-01671-7 [code]
Light Exposure as a Modifiable Determinant of Mental Health.
Journal: Current psychiatry reports
In common: 1 reference
[6] doi:10.1162/netn.a.549 [code]
Distributed cortical network dynamics of binocular convergent eye movements in humans.
Journal: Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)
In common: 1 reference
[7] doi:10.1016/j.isci.2026.117436 [code]
An auditory "low road" for threat processing in humans sensitive to fast temporal cues.
Journal: iScience
In common: 1 reference
[8] doi:10.1167/jov.26.5.6
Optical and neural contributions to contrast sensitivity: A factor analysis of individual differences with and without adaptive optics.
Journal: Journal of vision
In common: 1 reference
[9] doi:10.7554/elife.105482 [code]
Principles of gamma synchrony predict figure-ground perception in texture stimuli.
Journal: eLife
In common: 1 reference
[10] doi:10.1162/netn.a.586
Effects of light on brain-state dynamics and energy landscape.
Journal: Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)
In common: 1 reference

Contribute

The authors of this paper can claim it, correct its record and validate its tracing map, and the maintainers of its code (its owner, or a public member of its organization) correct what it says of their repository; anyone signed in can ask for its removal. Every request goes to OSCR's own machine, which answers it; your account page follows them.

Sign in with ORCID to claim this paper as one of its authors, correct its record or validate its tracing map: when the paper's metadata lists your ORCID iD, you are recognized at once. Maintainers of its code: sign in with GitHub, then claim the repository on your account page.

Request its removal

To ask OSCR to remove this record, the copies of its authors' scripts or its tracing map, use the removal request page: signed in, you say who you are, what to remove and why, then review and confirm the request. Published rules decide every request (how).

Discussion, reproductions, activity

Discussion: questions and error reports about this paper and its code, from signed-in readers and its authors. It opens with sign-in.

Reproductions: reports from readers who ran the authors' code: what they reproduced, with which environment, commit and data. It opens with sign-in.

Activity: what happens around this paper: new versions of its record, its map's validation, discussions and reproductions. It opens with sign-in.