Luminance level and onset sequence of a pre- and post-exposure adapting field affects recognition of masked and unmasked stimuli.
Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of the luminance level of a pre-/post-exposure field and onset sequence of a post-exposure field on briefly exposed visual stimuli for 13 male and 13 female undergraduate college students. Results showed that identification of a briefly exposed informational test stimulus as well as masking effects (the minimum interval between an informational test stimulus and non-informational backward visual noise mask) were both influenced by the luminance of the pre-exposure field and onset sequence of the post-exposure field.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D014796:Visual Perception