Some observations on the pedestal effect

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Henning, G Bruce ^a   Wichmann, Felix A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast discrimination; Contrast gain control; Dipper effect; Masking; Nonlinear transducer function; Off frequency looking; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; ARTIFACT; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VISION;

ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846372343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.1.3     Document Type: Article

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