Implicit masking constrained by spatial inhomogeneities

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1917-1927

  Yang, Jian ^a,b   Makous, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

CSF; Fourier; Masking; Spatial inhomogeneity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASKING; MEASUREMENT; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; CONES (RETINA); CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0030751165     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00006-0     Document Type: Article

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