Sensitivity to spatial phase at equiluminance

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1153-1162

  Martini, Paolo ^a   Girard, Pascal ^b   Morrone, M Concetta ^a,c   Burr, David C ^d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Colour; Edges; Equiluminance; Lines; Phase

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0029997481     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00178-6     Document Type: Article

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