Metacontrast
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From meta- + contrast.
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