The Frohlich effect: A consequence of the interaction of visual focal attention and metacontrast

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3702-3709

  Kirschfeld, Kuno ^a   Kammer, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frohlich effect; Metacontrast; Motion perception; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM; AGED; ASSOCIATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0032586381     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00089-9     Document Type: Article

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