Orientation discrimination in visual noise using global and local stimuli

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1225-1235

  Jones, David G ^a   Anderson, Nicole D ^a   Murphy, Kathryn M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Modelling; Noise stimuli; Orientation; Summation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 0037407126     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00095-6     Document Type: Article

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