Spatial integration and effective spectral density of one-dimensional noise masks

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1775-1782

  Kukkonen, Heljä ^a   Rovamo, Jyrki ^a   Melmoth, Dean ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Check noise; One dimensional noise; Scale invariance; Spatial integration; White noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE NOISE;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRICITY; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0033040898     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00221-1     Document Type: Article

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