"paracontrast" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "An apparatus for the demonstration of the phenomena of the time relations of visual stimuli, and of meta- and paracontrast.",
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          "ref": "1989, Glyn W. Humphreys, Vicki Bruce, Visual Cognition: Computational, Experimental and Neuropsychological Perspectives, Psychology Press, page 123:",
          "text": "Masking between non-overlapping stimuli is termed paracontrast when the mask precedes the target, and metacontrast then the mask follows the target (equivalent to forward and backward masking between overlapping stimuli).",
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          "text": "A particular type of forward masking, in which the target and mask are spatially nonoverlapping, as in metacontrast, is called paracontrast masking.",
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