Two eccentricity-dependent limitations on subjective contour discrimination

Vision Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 227-238

  Poirier, Frédéric J A M ^a   Gurnsey, Rick ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical magnification; Eccentricity; Peripheral vision; Spatial scaling; Subjective contours

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0036153263     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(01)00273-5     Document Type: Article

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