Vernier judgments in the absence of regular shape information

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 2349-2360

  Patel, Saumil S ^a   Bedell, Harold E ^a   Ukwade, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Centroid; Hyperacuity; Orientation; Shape processing; Vernier acuity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; ROTATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0033040673     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00265-X     Document Type: Article

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