Recognition of band-pass filtered hand-written numerals in foveal and peripheral vision

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 3691-3701

  Näsänen, Risto ^a,b   O'Leary, Claire ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Contrast; Efficiency; Noise; Peripheral vision; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0344193108     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00062-5     Document Type: Article

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