Recovery and nonmonotone masking effects

Recovery was produced by a homogeneous flash of light (M 2). With M 2 absent, correct letter report was a U-shaped curve when plotted against the interval separating the onset of a letter target and the onset of a patterned masking stimulus (M 1. With the homogeneous flash of light added to the stim...

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Published inVision research (Oxford) Vol. 22; no. 9; pp. 1087 - 1091
Main Authors Purcell, Dean G., Stewart, Alan L., Hochberg, Estelle P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 1982
Subjects
Adult
Humans
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Perceptual Masking - physiology
Space life sciences
Time Factors
Visual Perception - physiology
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Summary:Recovery was produced by a homogeneous flash of light (M 2). With M 2 absent, correct letter report was a U-shaped curve when plotted against the interval separating the onset of a letter target and the onset of a patterned masking stimulus (M 1. With the homogeneous flash of light added to the stimulus sequence (target + M 1 + M 2), recovery occurred for all but the shortest delays between the onsets of target and M 1. Recovery peaked at a constant separation between the onsets of the target and M 2, regardless of the separation between the onsets of the target and M 1. Current explanations of recovery cannot account for this result.
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ISSN:0042-6989
1878-5646
DOI:10.1016/0042-6989(82)90071-2