Discrimination and identification of luminance contrast stimuli

Journal of Vision

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 599-609

  Kachinsky, Emily S ^a   Smith, Vivianne C ^a   Pokorny, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Luminance contrast discrimination; Luminance contrast identification; MC pathway; PC pathway

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0347080830     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/3.10.2     Document Type: Article

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