Response priming driven by local contrast, not subjective brightness

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1556-1568

  Schmidt, Thomas ^a   Miksch, Sandra ^b   Bulganin, Lisa ^b   Jäger, Florian ^b   Lossin, Felix ^b   Jochum, Joline ^a   Kohl, Peter ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957687285     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.6.1556     Document Type: Article

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