Metacontrast masking with texture-defined second-order stimuli

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 2453-2461

  Tapia, Evelina ^a,b   Breitmeyer, Bruno G ^a   Jacob, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Metacontrast; Second order objects; Texture defined objects; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; METACONTRAST MASKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEXTURE ORIENTATION CONTRAST; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 82455164184     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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