Contrast dependency of foveal spatial functions: Orientation, vernier, separation, blur and displacement discrimination and the tilt and Poggendorff illusions

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1631-1639

  Westheimer, Gerald ^a   Brincat, Scott ^a   Wehrhahn, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Hyperacuity; Spatial vision; Visual illusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TILTING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; ROTATION;

EID: 0033049399     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00200-4     Document Type: Article

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