Monochromatic aberrations provide an odd-error cue to focus direction

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

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 833-839

  Wilson, Brent J ^a   Decker, Keith E ^b   Roorda, Austin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ERROR CORRECTION; FOCUSING; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SENSORS; MONOCHROMATORS; WAVEFRONTS;

POINT SPREAD FUNCTION (PSF);

BINOCULAR VISION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR VISION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0036583343     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.19.000833     Document Type: Article

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