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metacontrast

metacontrast noun: a reduction of the apparent brightness of illumination when an adjacent visual field is illuminated.

Noun

metacontrast

  1. A reduction of the apparent brightness of illumination when an adjacent visual field is illuminated
    • Stimuli with pixels that change just once have been employed by Sackur [20 ] for studying metacontrast masking rather than visible persistence; he displaced pixels instead of flipping them.2015 September 9, “Visible Persistence of Single-Transient Random Dot Patterns: Spatial Parameters Affect the Duration of Fading Percepts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of metacontrast

From meta- + contrast.

Questions about metacontrast

What does metacontrast mean?
Metacontrast means a reduction of the apparent brightness of illumination when an adjacent visual field is illuminated.
What part of speech is metacontrast?
Metacontrast is a noun.

Words near metacontrast in the dictionary

  1. metacontext
  2. metacontexts
  3. metacontextual
  4. metacontig
  5. metacontigs
  6. metacontrast
  7. metaconular
  8. metaconule
  9. metaconules
  10. metaconversation
  11. metaconversations

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