Defining the detection mechanisms for symmetric and rectified flicker stimuli

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 2700-2713

  Zele, Andrew J ^a,b   Vingrys, Algis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Flicker; Luminance pedestal; Rectified flicker; Rod cone interaction; Stimulus onset asynchrony; Symmetric flicker; Temporal sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONES (RETINA); CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RODS (RETINA); SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 34548715769     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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