Binocular combination of phase and contrast explained by a gain-control and gain-enhancement model

Journal of Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Ding, Jian ^a   Klein, Stanley A ^a   Levi, Dennis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular contrast contour; Contrast constant perception; Cyclopean sine wave; Disparity energy; Interocular enhancement; Interocular inhibition; Motor sensory fusion; Phase dependency of binocular contrast combination; Visual direction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878350334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/13.2.13     Document Type: Article

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