Shape recognition elicited by microsecond flashes is not based on photon quantity

i-Perception

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 87-93

  Greene, Ernest ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloch's law; Brief flashes; Information persistence; Shape recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897908747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20416695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/i0639rep     Document Type: Article

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