Scaling effects in the perception of higher-order spatial correlations

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 3097-3107

  Joseph, Julian S ^a,c   Victor, Jonathan D ^b   Optican, Lance M ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute efficiency; Higher order correlations; Scale invariance; Texture discrimination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0030728633     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00068-0     Document Type: Article

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