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ArticleAnnual review of vision science2015

Visual Adaptation.

Michael A Webster

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Article in Annual review of vision science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 173 papers.

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173 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Michael A WebsterDepartment of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno NV 89557 USA.

Funding

SALIENCE, ADAPTATION, AND NATURAL IMAGE STATISTICSR01EY010834 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO · PI WEBSTER, MICHAEL A · 2000 to 2023
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COLOR CONTRAST ADAPTATIONR29EY010834 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO · PI WEBSTER, MICHAEL A · 1995 to 1999
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NEI NIH HHS R01 EY010834NEI NIH HHS R29 EY010834
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensory systems continuously mold themselves to the widely varying contexts in which they must operate. Studies of these adaptations have played a long and central role in vision science. In part this is because the specific adaptations remain a powerful tool for dissecting vision, by exposing the mechanisms that are adapting. That is, "if it adapts, it's there." Many insights about vision have come from using adaptation in this way, as a method. A second important trend has been the realization that the processes of adaptation are themselves essential to how vision works, and thus are likely to operate at all levels. That is, "if it's there, it adapts." This has focused interest on the mechanisms of adaptation as the target rather than the probe. Together both approaches have led to an emerging insight of adaptation as a fundamental and ubiquitous coding strategy impacting all aspects of how we see.

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colorformneural codingperceptual constancyperceptual normsplasticity

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PMID26858985
PMCPMC4742349

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