Facilitation between the luminance and red-green detection mechanisms: Enhancing contrast differences across edges

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 4098-4112

  Gowdy, P D ^a   Stromeyer III, C F ^a,b   Kronauer, R E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Luminance mechanism; Red green mechanism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHTING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0032852867     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00115-7     Document Type: Article

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