Awareness of central luminance edge is crucial for the Craik-O'Brien-Cornsweet effect

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER, 2011, Pages

  Masuda, Ayako ^a   Watanabe, Junji ^b   Terao, Masahiko ^b,c   Watanabe, Masataka ^c   Yagi, Akihiro ^a   Maruya, Kazushi ^b  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Binocular suppression; Continuous flash suppression; Craik O'Brien Cornsweet effect; Lightness perception; Visual awareness; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BINOCULAR VISION; CRAIK O' BRIEN CORNSWEET EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LUMINESCENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL MASKING;

EID: 85203872435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00125     Document Type: Article

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