English

Noun

metacontrast

1. A reduction of the apparent brightness of illumination when an adjacent visual field is illuminated
   • 2015 September 9, “Visible Persistence of Single-Transient Random Dot Patterns: Spatial Parameters Affect the Duration of Fading Percepts”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0137091:

     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.