Target recovery in metacontrast: The effect of contrast

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 4726-4734

  Öǧmen, Haluk ^a   Breitmeyer, Bruno G ^a   Todd, Steven ^a   Mardon, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Disinhibition; Dissociation; Magnocellular; Metacontrast; Parvocellular; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISIBILITY; VISUAL MASKING;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33751017065     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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