Adaptation to sine-wave gratings selectively reduces the contrast of the adapted stimuli

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 739-759

  Dao, Debbie Y ^a   Lu, Zhong Lin ^a   Dosher, Barbara A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Bandwidth; Contrast gain control; Nonlinear transducer function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745714917     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.7.6     Document Type: Article

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