Spatial coherence does not affect contrast discrimination for multiple Gabor stimuli

Perception

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1411-1422

  Meese, Tim S ^a   Hess, Robert F ^b   Williams, Cristyn B ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035753340     PISSN: 03010066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/p3159     Document Type: Article

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