When stereopsis does not improve with increasing contrast

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 3671-3679

  Wilcox, Laurie M ^a   Hess, Robert F ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

2nd order; Contrast; D(max); Non linear; Stereoacuity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0031716733     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00066-2     Document Type: Article

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