Phantom flashes caused by interactions across visual space

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1-17

  Chatterjee, Garga ^a   Wu, Daw An ^b   Sheth, Bhavin R ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue integration; Illusory flash; Space; Temporal vision; Transient; Visual event

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA FOVEA; TIME; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79957987223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.2.1     Document Type: Article

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