Orientation dependency for foveal line stimuli: Detection and intensity discrimination, resolution, orientation discrimination and vernier acuity

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1097-1103

  Westheimer, Gerald ^a   Beard, Bettina L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Oblique effect; Orientation discrimination; Resolution; Vernier acuity

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0032005543     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00248-4     Document Type: Article

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