Scale-invariant superiority of foveal vision in perceptual categorization

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 353-359

  Jüttner, Martin ^a   Rentschler, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Categorization; Discrimination; Extrafoveal vision; Human; Learning; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RETINA FOVEA; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0033959758     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00907.x     Document Type: Article

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