Visual attention and metacontrast modify latency to perception in opposite directions

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1027-1033

  Kirschfeld, Kuno ^a   Kammer, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Latency to perception; Metacontrast; Motion illusion; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRIGHTNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; LATENT PERIOD; LUMINANCE; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034060239     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00040-7     Document Type: Article

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