Post-retinal processing of background luminance

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 4045-4051

  Yang, Jian ^a   Stevenson, Scott B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical; Frequency masking; Interocular; Light adaptation; Retinal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHTING; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032836562     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00116-9     Document Type: Article

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