Exploring the dynamics of light adaptation: The effects of varying the flickering background's duration in the probed-sinewave paradigm

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 2276-2288

  Wolfson, S Sabina ^a   Graham, Norma ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Dynamics; Flicker; Light adaptation; Probed sinewave paradigm; Temporal frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; ADULT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; SIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 0033643662     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6989(00)00088-2     Document Type: Article

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