The efficacy of local luminance amplitude in disambiguating the origin of luminance signals depends on carrier frequency: Further evidence for the active role of second-order vision in layer decomposition

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 496-507

  Sun, Peng ^a   Schofield, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depth perception; Layer decomposition; Second order vision

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; LAYER DECOMPOSITION; LUMINANCE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND ORDER VISION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISION;

HUMANS; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952490846     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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