Achromatic contrast effects in infants: Adults and 4-month-old infants show similar deviations from Wallach's ratio rule

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 2854-2861

  Chien, Sarina Hui Lin ^a,b   Palmer, John ^a   Teller, Davida Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Achromatic contrast; Cross familiarization; Familiarization; Infant vision; Novelty effects; Wallach's ratio rule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT;

ADULT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 23944442462     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.07.035     Document Type: Article

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