The effect of spatial frequency adaptation on the latency of spatial contrast detection

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 3933-3942

  Menees, Susan M ^a,b  

^a KEENE STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Channels; Contrast gain; Contrast threshold; Control; Multiple spatial frequency; Reaction time; Spatial frequency adaptation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; FEMALE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0031719048     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00298-8     Document Type: Article

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