A reversal in the direction of detection asymmetry: Effects of spatial density, spatial regularity, and retinal eccentricity

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 829-843

  Meinecke, Cristina ^a,d   Kimchi, Ruth ^b   Grandegger, Christina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA;

ADULT; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; RETINA; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036633853     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194749     Document Type: Article

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