The scintillating grid illusion

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1033-1038

  Schrauf, Michael ^a   Lingelbach, Bernd ^b   Wist, Eugene R ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Institut für Augenoptik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brightness perception; Eye movements; Hermann grid illusion; Scintillation effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0030974004     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00255-6     Document Type: Article

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