Scene masking is affected by trial blank-screen luminance
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Highlights：
• We examine the impact of blank screen luminance on masking.
• Blank screen luminance clearly affects the effectiveness of visual masking.
• White blank screens cause the greatest detriment to scene-recognition performance at all SOAs.
• Black blank screens cause greater detriment to scene-recognition performance at SOAs<36 ms than do gray blank screens set to the mean luminance of the stimuli.
• Impacts on masking of black and gray blank screens are equivalent after 36 ms.
摘要
•We examine the impact of blank screen luminance on masking.•Blank screen luminance clearly affects the effectiveness of visual masking.•White blank screens cause the greatest detriment to scene-recognition performance at all SOAs.•Black blank screens cause greater detriment to scene-recognition performance at SOAs<36 ms than do gray blank screens set to the mean luminance of the stimuli.•Impacts on masking of black and gray blank screens are equivalent after 36 ms.
论文关键词：Visual masking,Stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA),Scene perception,Scene gist,Rapid scene categorization,Luminance
论文评审过程：Available online 15 April 2015, Version of Record 18 November 2015.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2015.04.004
