Pattern detection in the presence of maskers that differ in spatial phase and temporal offset: Threshold measurements and a model

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3855-3872

  Foley, John M ^a   Chen, Chien Chung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Masking; Pattern; Phase; SOA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MASKING;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0032774696     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00104-2     Document Type: Article

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