The effect of noise check size and shape on grating detectability

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 271-279

  Rovamo, Jyrki ^a   Kukkonen, Heljä ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Check noise; Check shape; Critical check size; Masking; White noise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GRATING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETRY; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; WHITE NOISE;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTOMETRY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029656096     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00081-A     Document Type: Article

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