Temporal sensitivity of human luminance pattern mechanisms determined by masking with temporally modulated stimuli

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1641-1656

  Boynton, Geoffrey M ^a   Foley, John M ^b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast; Inhibition; Masking; Spatio temporal frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033043612     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00199-0     Document Type: Article

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