Detection of incremental and decremental bars at different locations across mach bands and related stimuli

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1147-1159

  Henning, G Bruce ^a   Millar, Robert W ^b   Hill, N Jeremy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LIGHT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION;

IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT REFLECTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; VISION;

MACH BANDS;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 0034217428     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.17.001147     Document Type: Article

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