Binocular vision enhances phase discrimination by filtering the background

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 468-489

  Schneider, Bruce A ^a   Moraglia, Giampaolo ^a   Speranza, Filippo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 0033112208     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211967     Document Type: Article

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