Grating and plaid masks indicate linear summation in a contrast gain pool

Journal of Vision

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1080-1089

  Holmes, David J ^a   Meese, Tim S ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inhibition; Masking; Spatial vision; Summation; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VISUAL THRESHOLD; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 25144484498     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/4.12.7     Document Type: Article

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