The time course of contrast masking reveals two distinct mechanisms of human surround suppression

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Petrov, Yury ^a,c   McKee, Suzanne P ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Human subjects; Psychophysics; Surround suppression; Time course

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONOCULAR VISION; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 58749116844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.1.21     Document Type: Article

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