Vernier and letter acuities for low-pass filtered moving stimuli

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1967-1982

  Chung, Susana T L ^a   Bedell, Harold E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Intrinsic blur; Letter acuity; Low pass filtering; Motion; Vernier acuity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; LETTER; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; VELOCITY; VISUAL ACUITY;

FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031830927     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00327-1     Document Type: Article

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