Threshold fluctuations on temporally modulated backgrounds: A possible physiological explanation based upon a recent computational model

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 957-967

  Hood, D C ^a   Graham, N ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Flicker; Incremental threshold; Light adaptation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032170453     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523898155165     Document Type: Article

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