Dember W N, Stefl M
Science. 1972 Jan 7;175(4017):93-5. doi: 10.1126/science.175.4017.93.
Presentation of a masking stimulus enhances, rather than detracts from, detectability of certain multisegment targets. Present theories of backward masking cannot account for this "backward enhancement" effect, which resembles another puzzling phenomenon, previously reported as target recovery or disinhibition. An explanation in terms of interaction between retinal excitatory and inhibitory fields is offered.
掩蔽刺激的呈现增强而非降低了某些多段目标的可检测性。现有的反向掩蔽理论无法解释这种“反向增强”效应,该效应类似于另一种令人困惑的现象,此前被报道为目标恢复或去抑制。本文提出了一种基于视网膜兴奋场和抑制场相互作用的解释。