Contrast masking effects change with practice

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1725-1733

  Dorais, Alain ^a   Sagi, Dov ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contrast discrimination; Detection; Gain control; Learning; Masking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; TRANSDUCER; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0030756845     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00329-X     Document Type: Article

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