Psychophysical evidence for two routes to suppression before binocular summation of signals in human vision

Neuroscience

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 435-448

  Baker, D H ^a   Meese, T S ^a   Summers, R J ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

binocular rivalry; contrast gain control; cross orientation inhibition; human vision; masking; psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947203164     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.01.030     Document Type: Article

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