Perceived contrast following adaptation to gratings of different orientations

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1811-1818

  Ross, John ^a   Speed, Harriet D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive shifting; Perceived contrast; Transducer functions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0029991678     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00240-5     Document Type: Article

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