Remote facilitation in the Fourier domain

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1112-1119

  Meese, Tim S ^a   Holmes, David J ^a   Challinor, Kirsten L ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Contrast gain control; Human vision; Masking; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FACILITATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33947259408     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.11.010     Document Type: Article

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