Second-order illusions: Mach bands, Chevreul, and Craik-O'Brien-Cornsweet

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 559-572

  Lu, Zhong Lin ^a   Sperling, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fullwave rectification; Halfwave rectification; Illusions; Mach bands; Nonlinear processing; Second order processing; Texture perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ILLUSION;

EID: 0030068670     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00139-5     Document Type: Article

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