Oblique stimuli are seen best (not worst!) in naturalistic broad-band stimuli: A horizontal effect

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1329-1335

  Essock, Edward A ^a,b   DeFord, J Kevin ^a,c   Hansen, Bruce C ^a   Sinai, Michael J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c King College   (United States)

^d Laser Diagnostic Technologies Inc   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0038404759     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00142-1     Document Type: Article

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