The efficiency of different cue types for reducing spatial-frequency uncertainty

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 401-408

  Hübner, Ronald ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cuing; Signal detection; Sinusoidal gratings; Spatial frequency uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0343586536     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00112-3     Document Type: Article

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