The effects of eccentricity and stimulus magnification on simultaneous performance in position and movement acuity tasks

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1261-1270

  Mäkelä, Pia ^a   Rovamo, Jyrki ^a   Whitaker, David ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eccentricity; Human; Peripheral vision; Simultaneous performance; Spatial scaling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 18844472859     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00293-3     Document Type: Article

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