Velocity discrimination in scotopic vision

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2011-2024

  Takeuchi, Tatsuto ^a,b   De Valois, Karen K ^b  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion; Scotopic vision; Velocity discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NIGHT VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; STIMULUS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; RODS (RETINA);

EID: 0034067417     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00048-1     Document Type: Article

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