Scaling of letter size and contrast equalises perception across eccentricities and set sizes

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 769-777

  Melmoth, Dean R ^a   Rovamo, Jyrki M ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Contrast scaling; Letter perception; Periphery; Set size; Size scaling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SCALE UP; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0037336199     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00685-5     Document Type: Article

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