The effects of the global structure of the mask in visual backward masking

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1790-1797

  Hermens, Frouke ^a   Herzog, Michael H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Backward masking; Mask structure; Regularity; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 34248590040     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.02.020     Document Type: Article

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