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... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > perception (psychology) > visual perception > visual masking
... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > learning and perception > cognitive processes > perception (psychology) > visual perception > visual masking

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visual masking  

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  • Visual masking refers to the reduced visibility of one stimulus, called the target, because of the presence of another stimulus, called the mask. As the generality of this definition suggests, visual masking is not a unitary phenomenon. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Mind; Visual Masking]

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