Effects of contrast and temporal frequency on orientation discrimination for luminance and isoluminant stimuli

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1105-1117

  Reisbeck, Tobias E ^a   Gegenfurtner, Karl R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatic mechanisms; Contrast; Form perception; Temporal frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0032007094     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00240-X     Document Type: Article

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