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Published on: September 6, 2017
Interaction between rod and cone systems in dichoptic visual masking
1Department of Communication, University of Keele, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG Great Britain.
Abstract:
The brightness of a brief flash of light is reduced by the suitable presentation of a second flash in an adjacent region of the visual field. This making effect (metacontrast) can be induced dichoptically, that is with the test flash presented to one eye and the masking flash to the other. By a suitable choice of wavelengths and conditioning field, the test flash may be arranged to effectively stimulate only rod receptors and the masking flash only cone receptor. A dichoptic masking effect is still obtained.
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