The effect of spatial cues on visual sensitivity

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1209-1216

  Solomon, Joshua A ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Contrast; Sensitivity; Signal enhancement

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842558232     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.12.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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