Pattern-color separable pathways predict sensitivity to simple colored patterns

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 515-526

  Poirson, Allen B ^a,b   Wandell, Brian A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Detection; Separability; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY;

EID: 0030049192     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(96)89251-0     Document Type: Article

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