metacontrast

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noun

A reduction of the apparent brightness of illumination when an adjacent visual field is illuminated

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Meanings

noun
  1. A reduction of the apparent brightness of illumination when an adjacent visual field is illuminated

    Stimuli with pixels that change just once have been employed by Sackur [20 ] for studying metacontrast masking rather than visible persistence; he displaced pixels instead of flipping them.

    2015 September 9, “Visible Persistence of Single-Transient Random Dot Patterns: Spatial Parameters Affect the Duration of Fading Percepts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From meta- + contrast.

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APA

metacontrast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metacontrast

MLA

“metacontrast.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metacontrast. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “metacontrast,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metacontrast.

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