A new source of variance in visual acuity

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 951-958

  Coppens, Joris E ^a   Van Den Berg, Thomas J T P ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blur; Gaussian blur; Intrinsic blur; Scale invariance; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 1342264263     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.11.008     Document Type: Article

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