Effect of contrast on the perception of moving multiple Gabor patterns

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3069-3082

  Takeuchi, Tatsuto ^a  

^a Bio Medical Informatics Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast; Global motion; Motion integration; Plaid; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031714514     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00019-4     Document Type: Article

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