Effect of spatial scale and background luminance on the intensive and spatial nonlinearities in texture segregation

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1371-1390

  Graham, Norma ^a   Sutter, Anne ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Gain; Inhibition; Nonlinear; Texture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0029919715     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00209-X     Document Type: Article

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