Attentional effects on contrast discrimination in humans: Evidence for both contrast gain and response gain

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1201-1212

  Huang, Liqiang ^a   Dobkins, Karen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Contrast discrimination; Contrast gain; Response gain; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 13544261504     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.10.024     Document Type: Article

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