Limitations on position coding imposed by undersampling and univariance

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 2111-2120

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast discrimination; Position discrimination; Psychophysics; Spatial sampling; Spatial vision; Univariance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; DATA ANALYSIS; MODEL; PERIPHERAL VISION; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE;

EID: 0030200942     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00264-2     Document Type: Article

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