Sensitivity to modulations of luminance and contrast in visual white noise: Separate mechanisms with similar behaviour

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2697-2716

  Schofield, Andrew J ^a   Georgeson, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast; Facilitation; Luminance; Masking; Mixed detection; Noise; Sensitivity; Spatial modulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION; WHITE NOISE;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0032999644     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00284-3     Document Type: Article

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