Probability summation for multiple patches of luminance modulation

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2101-2113

  Meese, T S ^a   Williams, C B ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contrast detection; Independent detectors; Probability summation; Spatial vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034237325     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00074-2     Document Type: Article

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