Luminance and contrast cues are integrated in global shape detection with contours

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 2336-2344

  Bell, Jason ^a,b   Badcock, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contour; Contrast; Global; Luminance; Radial frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LUMINANCE; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 51649097344     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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