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The Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A) is devoted to developments in any field of classical optics, image science, and vision. JOSA A includes original peer-reviewed papers on such topics as atmospheric optics, image processing, scattering and coherence theory, machine vision, statistical optics, color, clinical vision, and visual optics.

Editor-in-Chief: Franco Gori, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre
ISSN: 1084-7529 | eISSN: 1520-8532
Frequency: Rapid article-at-a-time publication; Monthly issues
2010 ISI Impact Factor: 1.936

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Color Vision: Introduction
JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.CV1-CV3 (2012)

Color Vision: Introduction
JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.- (2012)

Systematic violations of von Kries rule reveal its limitations for explaining color and lightness constancy
Cone contrast remains constant, when the same object/background is seen under different illuminations—the von... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A275-A289 (2012)

Hypoxia, color vision deficiencies, and blood oxygen saturation
Chromatic thresholds were measured using the Cambridge Colour Test (CCT), the Colour Assessment and Diagnosis... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A268-A274 (2012)

Do color appearance judgments interfere with detection of small threshold stimuli?
The application of adaptive optics to vision science creates the potential to directly probe the link between... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A258-A267 (2012)

Context-dependent judgments of color that might allow color constancy in scenes with multiple regions of illumination
For a color-constant observer, a change in the spectral composition of the illumination is accompanied by a... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A247-A257 (2012)

Contrast edge colors under different natural illuminations
Essential to sensory processing in the human visual system is natural illumination, which can vary... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A240-A246 (2012)

The relationship between peripherally matched invariant hues and unique hues: a cone-contrast approach
A characteristic shift in hue and saturation occurs when colored targets are viewed peripherally compared... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A233-A239 (2012)

Spatial distributions of cone inputs to cells of the parvocellular pathway investigated with cone-isolating gratings
Receptive fields of midget ganglion cells and parvocellular lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) neurons show... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A223-A232 (2012)

Effect of luminosity on color discrimination of dichromatic marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)
Psychophysical data have shown that under mesopic conditions cones and rods can interact, improving color... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A216-A222 (2012)

Influence of the correlated color temperature of a light source on the color discrimination capacity of the observer
It is well known that there are different preferences in correlated color temperature of light sources for... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A209-A215 (2012)

Predicting frequency of metamerism in natural scenes by entropy of colors
Estimating the frequency of metameric surfaces in natural scenes usually requires many comparisons of surface... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A200-A208 (2012)

Visual search in natural scenes explained by local color properties
Success in visually searching for a small object or target in a natural scene depends on many factors,... JOSA A, Vol. 29 Issue 2, pp.A194-A199 (2012)

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Topics in Current Issue

Vol. 29, Iss. 1 — Jan. 1, 2012  pp: 1–163

	Coherence and Statistical Optics (2)
	Diffraction and Gratings (1)
	Fourier Optics and Signal Processing (1)
	Image Processing (3)
	Imaging Systems (1)
	Instrumentation, Measurement, and Metrology (2)
	Optical Design and Fabrication (1)
	Physical Optics (1)
	Scattering (2)
	Vision, Color, and Visual Optics (2)
	X-ray Optics (1)

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