Central factors contributing to para-contrast modulation of contour and brightness perception

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 191-196

  Breitmeyer, Bruno G ^a   Ziegler, Ralph ^a,b   Hauske, Gert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brightness; Contour; Cortical processing; Facilitation; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRIGHTNESS; EYE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 34447630254     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523807070393     Document Type: Article

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