Differential roles of contrast polarity reveal two streams of second-order visual processing

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 2047-2054

  Motoyoshi, Isamu ^a   Kingdom, Frederick A A ^b  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Luminance; Pattern; Second order; Texture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; IMAGE DISPLAY; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34250175132     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.03.015     Document Type: Article

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