The Role of Contrast in the Perception of Achromatic Transparency: Comment on Singh and Anderson (2002) and Anderson (2003)

Psychological Review

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1127-1141

  Albert, Marc K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

lightness perception; perceptual transparency; surface perception; visual perception

Indexed keywords

COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; NOTE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 56149095285     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013661     Document Type: Article

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