Spatial masking does not reveal mechanisms selective to combined luminance and red-green color

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2099-2112

  Stromeyer III, C F ^a,b   Thabet, R ^a   Chaparro, A ^a,b,c   Kronauer, R E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Luminance mechanism; Masking; Red green mechanism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0032916549     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00251-X     Document Type: Article

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