The orientation specificity of two visual after‐effects

1. Inspection of a high‐contrast adapting grating produces two visual after‐effects: (a) the contrast threshold is raised for test gratings of similar spatial frequency to that of the adapting pattern and (b) the apparent spatial frequency of test gratings shifts away from that of the adapting grating—higher frequencies seem higher and lower ones lower than they really are.

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