Contour integration in the peripheral field

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 947-959

  Hess, Robert F ^a   Dakin, Steven C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Association; Contour integration; Periphery; Positional uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE POSITION; FILTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0033004642     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00152-7     Document Type: Article

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