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Science 14 June 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3833, pp. 1251 - 1252
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3833.1251
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Visual Perception and Xerography

Herbert F. Crovitz 1 and Harold Schiffman 2

1 Veterans Administration Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
2 Psychology Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

An electrostatic copying machine was used to model the perception of simultaneous brightness contrast. Such a model may assist the study of sensory inhibition by permitting the study of complex situations as they are transformed by rules similar to those at work in neural integration.

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