Identification of band-pass filtered letters and faces by human and ideal observers

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3537-3560

  Gold, Jason ^a   Bennett, Patrick J ^a   Sekuler, Allison B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Face identification; Frequency filtering; Ideal observer; Letter identification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACE; FILTER; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HYPOTHESIS; LETTER; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FACE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032802067     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00080-2     Document Type: Article

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