Comparison of thresholds for high-speed drifting vernier and a matched temporal phase-discrimination task

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 1839-1855

  Mechler, Ferenc ^a   Victor, Jonathan D ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drifting and contrast reversed sinusoidal grating; High speed asynchrony limit; Spatio temporal vernier; Stroboscopic flicker masking; Temporal phase discrimination mechanism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROBOSCOPY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MOTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0034109567     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00035-3     Document Type: Article

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