The effect of attentional spread on spatial resolution

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1499-1510

  Balz, Gunther W ^a   Hock, Howard S ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Luminance increments; Separation judgments; Spatial resolution; Vernier judgments

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ATTENTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031001420     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00296-9     Document Type: Article

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