Contrast discrimination under temporally varying contrast conditions

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1039-1050

  Dannemiller, James L ^a,c   Stephens, Benjamin R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME PERCEPTION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034219821     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212087     Document Type: Article

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