Intrinsic uncertainty and integration efficiency in bisection acuity

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 717-739

  Wang, Hong ^a,b   Levi, Dennis M ^a   Klein, Stanley A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisection; Dipole; Efficiency; Local sign; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 0030050817     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00143-3     Document Type: Article

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