Previewing distracters reduces their effective contrast

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 2992-3000

  Allen, H A ^a   Humphreys, G W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Contrast sensitivity; Inhibition; Marking; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 34848884308     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.07.019     Document Type: Article

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