Surround modulation in human vision unmasked by masking experiments

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 724-728

  Yu, Cong ^a   Levi, Dennis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033946851     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/76687     Document Type: Article

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