Disappearing percepts: Evidence for retention failure in metacontrast masking

Visual Cognition

Volumn 7, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 269-279

  Lachter, Joel ^a,c   Durgin, Frank ^b   Washington, Tori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0034041177     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135062800394801     Document Type: Review

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