Detection facilitation by collinear stimuli in humans: Dependence on strength and sign of contrast

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 423-428

  Wehrhahn, Christian ^a   Dresp, Birgitta ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Contrast polarity; Detection; Facilitation; Long range spatial interactions; Orientation; Subthreshold summation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032008301     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00141-7     Document Type: Article

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