Saturation revealed by clamping the gain of the retinal light response

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2553-2562

  Tyler, Christopher W ^a   Liu, Lei ^a  

^a SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distortion; Gain control; Luminance; Saturation; Temporal integration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA;

EID: 0030220694     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00298-7     Document Type: Article

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