Different attentional resources modulate the gain mechanisms for color and luminance contrast

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1389-1401

  Morrone, M C ^a,b   Denti, V ^b   Spinelli, D ^c,d  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Color; Contrast increment threshold; Luminance

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COLOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIGHT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 1842557590     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.10.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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