An adaptation-induced pop-out in visual search
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Visualizing Visual Adaptation
Published on: April 24, 2017
1TNO Institute for Perception, Soesterberg, The Netherlands.
Vision Research
|November 1, 1993
Abstract:
The present study demonstrates that an object embedded in an array of identical objects can pop-out. Dependent on the stimuli preceding the search display, local (chromatic) adaptation causes an identical object to pop-out because it appears to have a colour (Expt 1) or brightness (Expt 2) that is slightly different from the colour and brightness of the other objects in the display. Experiment 3 shows that this pop-out even occurs when the stimulus preceding the search display is presented for only 100 msec.
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