Paracontrast

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A visual phenomenon where the perceived brightness of a stimulus is reduced when it is preceded by an adjacent visual stimulus. uncountable

    "An apparatus for the demonstration of the phenomena of the time relations of visual stimuli, and of meta- and paracontrast."

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"An apparatus for the demonstration of the phenomena of the time relations of visual stimuli, and of meta- and paracontrast."

Etymology

From para- + contrast.

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