Exploring the roles of saturating and supersaturating contrast-response functions in conjunction detection and contrast coding

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1-15

  May, Keith A ^a   Zhaoping, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AND gate; Conjunction; Contrast coding; Multiplication; Saturation; Supersaturation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80054688761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.9.11     Document Type: Article

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