Nonlinear combination of luminance excursions during flicker, simultaneous contrast, afterimages and binocular fusion

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 523-539

  Anstis, Stuart ^a   Ho, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Afterimage; Binocular fusion; Brightness perception; Colour vision; Fechner's paradox; Flicker; Simultaneous contrast

Indexed keywords

AFTERIMAGE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRIGHTNESS; COLOR; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AFTERIMAGE; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; LIGHT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TIME FACTORS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032008265     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00167-3     Document Type: Article

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