Spatial filtering versus anchoring accounts of brightness/lightness perception in staircase and simultaneous brightness/lightness contrast stimuli

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Blakeslee, Barbara ^a   Reetz, Daniel ^a   McCourt, Mark E ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Lightness brightness perception; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 64549161512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.3.22     Document Type: Article

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