Disentangling the pole of spatial scale, separation and eccentricity in Weber's law for position

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 515-524

  Whitaker, David ^a   Latham, Keziah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast; Eccentricity; Human; Iso eccentric; Separation; Spatial interval discrimination; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031081895     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00202-7     Document Type: Article

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