Interocular suppression is gated by interocular feature matching

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-15

  Meese, Tim S ^a   Hess, Robert F ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contrast matching; Dichoptic masking; Human vision; Inhibition; Interocular suppression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 9644255769     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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