Separating the chaff from the wheat: Possible origins of the oblique effect

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 697-710

  Keil, Matthias S ^a   Hillery, Gabriel Crist A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

SKEWNESS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034167499     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.17.000697     Document Type: Article

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