Lightness from contrast: A selective integration model

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1160-1181

  Ross, William D ^a   Pessoa, Luiz ^b  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0034242268     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212120     Document Type: Article

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