Facilitation from collinear flanks is cancelled by non-collinear flanks

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 279-286

  Solomon, Joshua A ^a   Morgan, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Lateral; Masking; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACILITATION; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0033992136     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0275-5408(99)00059-9     Document Type: Article

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