The temporal course of recovery from brief (sub-second) adaptations to spatial contrast

Vision Research

Volumn 62, Issue , 2012, Pages 116-124

  Pavan, Andrea ^a,b   Marotti, Rosilari Bellacosa ^c   Campana, Gianluca ^c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brief adaptation to spatial contrast; Divisive gain control; Recovery function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84860220971     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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