Contrast gain mechanism or transient channel? Why the effects of a background pattern alter over time

Vision Research

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 1879-1883

  Snowden, Robert J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Background pattern; Contrast gain mechanism; Transient channel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034978110     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(01)00110-9     Document Type: Article

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