Continuous flash suppression reduces negative afterimages

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1096-1101

  Tsuchiya, Naotsugu ^a   Koch, Christof ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERIMAGE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTINUOUS FLASH SUPPRESSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; VISIBILITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; HUMANS; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 23044495214     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1500     Document Type: Article

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