Estimating multiple temporal mechanisms in human vision

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1023-1040

  Fredericksen, R E ^a   Hess, R F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Spatiotemporal masking; Temporal impulse response; Temporal mechanisms; Temporal sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

HUMANS; LIGHT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS; VISION;

EID: 0032054695     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00239-3     Document Type: Article

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