The lowest spatial frequency channel determines brightness perception

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1282-1291

  Perna, A ^a,b   Morrone, M C ^c  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brightness; Edges and lines detection; Feature detection; Filling in; Spatial frequency channels

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA IMAGE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; LIGHT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34047266603     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.01.011     Document Type: Article

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