Orientation discrimination in foveal and extra-foveal vision: Effects of stimulus bandwidth and contrast

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1375-1385

  Sally, Sharon L ^a   Gurnsey, Rick ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eccentricity; Hyperacuity; Orientation discrimination; Peripheral vision; Spatial scaling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0038404763     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00119-6     Document Type: Article

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