Psychophysical end-stopping associated with line targets

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 2883-2896

  Yu, Cong ^a,c   Essock, Edward A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; End stopping; Perceptive field; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0030248601     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(96)00015-6     Document Type: Article

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