Discrimination of changes in the slopes of the amplitude spectra of natural images: Band-limited contrast and psychometric functions

Perception

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1011-1025

  Tolhurst, David J ^a   Tadmor, Yoav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0031303516     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p261011     Document Type: Article

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