An apparatus for the demonstration of the phenomena of the time relations of visual stimuli, and of meta- and paracontrast.
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Masking between non-overlapping stimuli is termed paracontrast when the mask precedes the target, and metacontrast then the mask follows the target (equivalent to forward and backward masking between overlapping stimuli).
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A particular type of forward masking, in which the target and mask are spatially nonoverlapping, as in metacontrast, is called paracontrast masking.
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