Characterization of spatial aliasing and contrast sensitivity in peripheral vision

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 249-258

  Thibos, Larry N ^a   Still, David L ^a   Bradley, Arthur ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aliasing; Contrast sensitivity; Undersampling; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; ROTATION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0029656033     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00109-D     Document Type: Article

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