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contrast enhancement at borders  

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  • Nineteenth-century visual scientists such as Michel-Eugène Chevreul, Ernst Mach, Hermann von Helmholtz, Ewald Hering, and Johannes Peter Müller discovered that simultaneously presented stimuli could affect each other's perceived contrast. For example, notice how each of the solid stripes in Figure 1 appears lighter on the left than on the right, even though each stripe has the same physical intensity across its width. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Contrast Enhancement at Borders]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MTWTNX4B-V

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