Isolating excitatory and inhibitory nonlinear spatial interactions involved in contrast detection

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2497-2513

  Zenger, Barbara ^a   Sagi, Dov ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contrast discrimination; Gain control; Learning; Masking; Second stage filters

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0030220596     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00303-7     Document Type: Article

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