Pulse and steady-pedestal contrast discrimination: effect of spatial parameters
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Pulse and steady-pedestal contrast discrimination: effect of spatial parameters
The goal of this study was to establish the spatial summation properties associated with inferred PC- and MC-pathway mediated psychophysical contrast discrimination. Previous work has established two paradigms that reveal characteristic signatures of these pathways. In the pulse paradigm, a four-square array was pulsed briefly, on a constant background. In the steady-pedestal paradigm, the stim...
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عنوان ژورنال: Vision Research
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0042-6989
DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6989(01)00085-2