Mechanisms underlying the detection of increments in parafoveal retina

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 373-390

  Verdon, Wayne ^a   Haegerstrom Portnoy, Gunilla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Increment threshold; Luminance; Opponent; Spectral sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0030028830     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00103-4     Document Type: Article

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