A temporal model for early vision that explains detection thresholds for light pulses on flickering backgrounds

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 449-462

  Snippe, Herman P ^a   Poot, L ^a   Van Hateren, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational model; Contrast gain control; Light adaptation; Psychophysical detection thresholds

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION;

EID: 0033921819     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800173110     Document Type: Article

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