Flicker brightness enhancement and visual nonlinearity

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1573-1583

  Wu, Shuang ^a   Burns, Stephen A ^a   Reeves, Adam ^b   Elsner, Ann E ^a  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness enhancement; Flicker threshold; Nonlinearity; Sandwich model; Temporal characteristics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; MODULATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0029924776     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00226-X     Document Type: Article

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