Facilitation of luminance grating detection by induced gratings

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2563-2573

  McCourt, Mark E ^a   Kingdom, Frederick A A ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brightness contrast; Brightness matching; Grating induction; Increment threshold; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FACILITATION; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0030220190     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00244-8     Document Type: Article

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