Contrast conservation in human vision

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 2637-2648

  Fiser, József ^a   Bex, Peter J ^b   Makous, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channel model; Coding efficiency; Dynamic contrast discrimination; Natural scene; Suprathreshold

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; SACCADES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0642341063     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00441-3     Document Type: Article

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