Brief presentations reveal the temporal dynamics of brightness induction and White's illusion

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 2370-2381

  Robinson, Alan E ^a   de Sa, Virginia R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness; Filling in; Induction; Masking; Temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISIBILITY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 52949121018     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.023     Document Type: Article

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