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Luminance Contrast Perception

Luminance Contrast Perception is a perceptual mechanism within visual processing that refers to the ability to detect and discriminate variations in luminance between adjacent regions in a visual scene, thereby enabling the visual system to extract spatial detail, object boundaries, and surface properties under differing illumination conditions.

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Psychophysical studies of monkey Vision-III. Spatial luminance contrast sensitivity tests of macaque and human observers

Russell L. De Valois, Herman Morgan, D. Max Snodderly · Vision Research · 1974 · 449 citations

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Perceived velocity of moving chromatic gratings

Patrick Cavanagh, Christopher W. Tyler, Olga Eizner Favreau · Journal of the Optical Society of America A · 1984 · 391 citations

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Independence of luminance and contrast in natural scenes and in the early visual system

Valerio Mante, Robert A. Frazor, Vincent Bonin et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2005 · 381 citations

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Dysfunction of Early-Stage Visual Processing in Schizophrenia

Pamela D. Butler, Isaac Schechter, Vance Zemon et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry · 2001 · 361 citations

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Luminance and spatial attention effects on early visual processing

S. Johannes, Thomas F. Münte, H.-J. Heinze et al. · Cognitive Brain Research · 1995 · 350 citations

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  1. RF
    Robert F. Hess

    McGill University, Canada

    7 publications · 364 citations

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  2. TD
    Thomas D. Albright

    Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States

    6 publications · 266 citations

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  3. KR
    Karl R. Gegenfurtner

    Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany

    5 publications · 253 citations

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  4. FA
    Frederick A. A. Kingdom

    McGill University, Canada

    5 publications · 127 citations

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  5. BD
    Birgitta Dresp

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    4 publications · 129 citations

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  1. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    14 h-index

    32 publications

    929 citations

  2. University of Padua

    Padua, Italy

    10 h-index

    15 publications

    290 citations

  3. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    9 h-index

    18 publications

    751 citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    9 h-index

    16 publications

    1.8K citations

  5. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    7 h-index

    17 publications

    676 citations

  6. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    497 citations

  7. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    426 citations

  8. York University

    Toronto, Canada

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    311 citations

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  1. Vision Research

    48 publications · 3.3K citations

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  2. Journal of Vision

    34 publications · 875 citations

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  3. Perception

    26 publications · 1.2K citations

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  4. Journal of the Optical Society of America A

    13 publications · 1K citations

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  5. Visual Neuroscience

    VMS · 10 publications · 342 citations

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