Transducer model produces facilitation from opposite-sign flanks

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 987-992

  Solomon, Joshua A ^a   Watson, Andrew B ^b   Morgan, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Lateral; Masking; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TRANSDUCER; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE SPACE HUMAN FACTORS;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033007826     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00143-6     Document Type: Article

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