How much of the visual object is used in estimating its position?

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3025-3029

  Kontsevich, Leonid L ^a   Tyler, Christopher W ^a  

^a SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Localization accuracy; Position coding; Visual object

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LUMINANCE; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHTING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031708428     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00148-5     Document Type: Article

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