PURSELL, Finn

PhD University of NSW 2010 Pages: ?

Contrast

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This thesis engages the contrast phenomenon in its various manifestations across the different sense modalities in order to assess the plausibility of contrast as a general perceptual principle. There is some question as to whether contrast may spill over into modalities it is not commonly associated with. In particular, a number of researchers have argued that contrast occurs in audition and has similarities to the brightness contrast illusion in visual perception. For example, studies of noise pitch have noted similar psychophysical properties to brightness contrast and invoked the same underlying neural mechanism....

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