Defining the limits of flicker defined form: Effect of stimulus size, eccentricity and number of random dots

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1075-1084

  Quaid, P T ^a   Flanagan, J G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contrast detection; Flicker; Magnocellular pathway; Phantom contour illusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 13444257494     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.10.013     Document Type: Article

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