Citation

Anstis S. Iperception 2014; 5(1): 73-74.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109, USA; e-mail: sanstis@ucsd.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1068/i0643sas

PMID

25165518

PMCID

PMC4130509

Abstract

Contrast adaptation is specific to precisely localised edges, so that adapting to a flickering photograph makes one less sensitive to that same photograph, but not to similar photographs. When two low-contrast photos, A and B, are transparently superimposed, then adapting to a flickering high-contrast B leaves no net afterimage, but it makes B disappear from the A+B picture, which now simply looks like A.

Language: en