Importance of phase alignment for interocular suppression

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1838-1847

  Maehara, Goro ^a   Huang, Pi Chun ^b   Hess, Robert F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Interocular suppression; Luminance contrast; Phase alignment; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRATING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTEROCULAR TRANSFER; LUMINANCE; MONOCULAR VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FRACTALS; HUMANS; LIGHTING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION DISPARITY;

EID: 67349279596     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.04.020     Document Type: Article

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