Attentional effects on contrast discrimination in humans: evidence for both contrast gain and response gain.

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Vision Research

• Publication date

  2004-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.VISRES.2004.10.024PMID 15707928
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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