What should a quantitative model of masking look like and why would we want it?

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 21-31

  Francis, Gregory ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Backward masking; Dynamic vision; Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049160638     PISSN: 18951171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10053-008-0011-6     Document Type: Article

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