Surround suppression and facilitation in the fovea: Very long-range spatial interactions in contrast perception

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Nurminen, Lauri ^a,b   Peromaa, Tarja ^b   Laurinen, Pentti ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Contrast matching; Human vision; Psychophysics; Surround modulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL FIELD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 78449257086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.13.9     Document Type: Article

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