No effect of age on spatial interval discrimination as a function of eccentricity or separation

Current Eye Research

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1010-1017

  Latham, Keziah ^a   Barrett, Brendan T ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Eccentricity; Hyperacuity; Separation; Spatial interval discrimination; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031672009     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.17.10.1010.5237     Document Type: Article

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