Motion contrast: A new metric for direction discrimination

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 26, 1999, Pages 4393-4402

  Georgeson, Mark A ^a   Scott Samuel, Nicholas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast; Contrast gain control; Direction discrimination; Flicker; Gratings; Human vision; Motion; Motion detection; Motion energy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; GRATING; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0032737154     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00147-9     Document Type: Article

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