Luminance processing in object substitution masking

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 937-945

  Luiga, Iiris ^a   Bachmann, Talis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Contrast polarity; Grouping; Luminance; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 39749140871     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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