The effect of photon noise on the detection of white flashes

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 691-703

  Reeves, Adam ^a   Wu, Shuang ^b   Schirillo, James ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early dark adaptation; Luminance; Photon noise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; DARKNESS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032030818     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00201-0     Document Type: Article

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