The limits of visual resolution in natural scene viewing

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1057-1092

  Loschky, Lester C ^a,d   McConkie, George W ^b   Yang, Jian ^c   Miller, Michael E ^c  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

^d Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 24644445543     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000652     Document Type: Review

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