Evidence of spatial and temporal channels in the correlational structure of human spatiotemporal contrast sensitivity

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 490, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 509-517

  Billock, Vincent A ^a,b   Harding, Thomas H ^a  

^a U S ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030034640     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021162     Document Type: Article

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