What is the denominator for contrast normalisation?

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 3759-3766

  Smith, David R R ^a,c   Derrington, Andrew M ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast normalisation; Motion; Ratio speed

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0030560646     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(96)00100-9     Document Type: Article

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