Modeling Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Visual Backward Masking

Psychological Review

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-100

  Hermens, Frouke ^a   Luksys, Gediminas ^a   Gerstner, Wulfram ^a   Herzog, Michael H ^a   Ernst, Udo ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

modeling; spatial vision; temporal vision; visual backward masking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 39049099070     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.115.1.83     Document Type: Article

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