R_Contrast: Rapid measurement of recognition contrast thresholds

Spatial Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 495-498

  Strasburger, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

RECOGNITION CONTRAST THRESHOLDS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE R CONTRAST;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER TERMINAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER TERMINALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DATA DISPLAY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0030612829     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856897X00447     Document Type: Article

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