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metacontrast en · NOUN

Etymology

From meta- + contrast.

Meanings

  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. 2015 September 9, “Visible Persistence of Single-Transient Random Dot Patterns: Spatial Parameters Affect the Duration of Fading Percepts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

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paracontrast