Interindividual variation in human visual performance

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 521-534

  Halpern, Scott D ^a   Andrews, Timothy J ^a   Purves, Dale ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; KINETICS; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION; VISION TESTS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032709948     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892999563580     Document Type: Article

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