Luminance processing in apparent motion, Vernier offset and stereoscopic depth

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 657-675

  Anstis, Stuart M ^a   Smith, David R R ^a,b   Mather, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apparent motion; Brightness; ON and OFF pathways; Scaling; Stereopsis; Vernier acuity; Weber contrast

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MOTION PERCEPTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0033983187     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00205-9     Document Type: Article

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