Illusory Contours: Curious Cases of Simultaneous Brightness Contrast?
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- 1 September 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perception
- Vol. 4 (3) , 349-357
Abstract
It is suggested that simultaneous brightness contrast mediated by lateral inhibition plays an important role in generating many illusory contours. These contours might reflect a further way in which lateral inhibition serves to clarify and sharpen the neural encoding of retinal images.Keywords
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