Retroactive Brightness Enhancement with Brief Paired Flashes of Light
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1965
Keywords
Test flash, Brighter flash, Direct magnitude-estimation
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(65)90075-1
Abstract
The brightness of a semi-circular test flash (TF), when followed at varying intervals by a circular, brighter flash (BF), was measured by a direct magnitude-estimation technique. There was a gradual increase in the brightness of the TF as the TF-BF interval was decreased. Brightness enhancement of the TF began when the interval between onsets of the two 10 msec flashes was about 150 msec and attained a maximum between 100 and 30 msec, depending upon the TF luminance. The brightness of the TF is a power function of the TF-BF interval with a negative exponent; the dimmer the TF the higher the absolute value of the exponent. A model accounting for this phenomenon in neurophysiological terms has been proposed.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Vision research, v. 5, issue 1-3, p. 59-70
Scholar Commons Citation
Donchin, Emanuel and Lindsley, Donald B., "Retroactive Brightness Enhancement with Brief Paired Flashes of Light" (1965). Psychology Faculty Publications. 172.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/172
