Cortical magnification neutralizes the eccentricity effect in visual search

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-82

  Carrasco, Marisa ^a   Frieder, Karen S ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical magnification; Retinal eccentricity; Spatial resolution; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISION TEST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031017418     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00102-2     Document Type: Article

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