The role of luminance contrast in the detection of global structure in static and dynamic, same- and opposite-polarity, Glass patterns

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-259

  Or, Charles C F ^a,b   Khuu, Sieu K ^a   Hayes, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apparent motion; Dynamic Glass patterns; Global motion; Luminance contrast

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; DYNAMICS; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33845658280     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.10.010     Document Type: Article

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