Temporal response characteristics of the spatiochromatic visual evoked potential: Nonlinearities and departures from psychophysics

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2595-2607

  Switkes, Eugene ^b   Adams, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME;

COLOR PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031255023     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.14.002595     Document Type: Article

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