A common contrast pooling rule for suppression within and between the eyes

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 585-601

  Meese, Tim S ^a   Challinor, Kirsten L ^a   Summers, Robert J ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast gain control; Divisive inhibition; Human vision; LGN; Masking; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 51049111198     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095252380808070X     Document Type: Article

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