An experiment was designed to investigate the effects of luminance contrast factors upon the concentric circles aftereffect for very short periods of fixation. The general finding was that the immediate aftereffect increased as the luminance contrast of the inducing figure increased and decreased as the luminance contrast of the test figure increased.
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