Interactions between flicker thresholds and luminance pedestals

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 2579-2588

  Anderson, Andrew J ^a   Vingrys, Algis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contrast discrimination functions; Facilitation; Light adaptation; Luminance pedestal flicker; Masking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; HUMAN; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 0033853169     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00121-8     Document Type: Article

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