Vernier acuity with non-simultaneous targets: The cortical magnification factor estimated by psychophysics

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 325-346

  Beard, Bettina L ^a   Levi, Dennis M ^b   Klein, Stanley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical magnification; Local sign; Periphery; Temporal; Vernier acuity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA FOVEA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERIMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031027362     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00109-5     Document Type: Article

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