Non-monotonic changes in performance with eccentricity modeled by multiple eccentricity-dependent limitations

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 2436-2448

  Poirier, Frédéric J A M ^a   Gurnsey, Rick ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hyper acuity; Peripheral vision; Spatial scaling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 20544468430     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.03.007     Document Type: Article

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