The spatial tuning of color and luminance peripheral vision measured with notch filtered noise masking

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 721-731

  Mullen, Kathy T ^a   Losada, M Angeles ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Color vision; Isoluminance; Noise masking; Spatial tuning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MASKING; NOISE; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032945220     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00171-0     Document Type: Article

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