Anchoring versus spatial filtering accounts of simultaneous lightness contrast

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Economou, Elias ^a   Zdravkovic, Suncica ^b,c   Gilchrist, Alan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Brightness; Contrast; Grouping; Illusion; Lightness; Simultaneous contrast; Spatial filtering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RADIATION SCATTERING; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548744674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.12.2     Document Type: Article

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