Colour unmasks dark targets in complex displays

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 814-822

  Kingdom, Frederick A A ^a   Kasrai, Reza ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Contrast detection; Masking; Transparency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSOR; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 29544449969     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.08.018     Document Type: Article

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