Contextual effects in fine spatial discriminations

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2230-2238

  Olzak, Lynn A ^a   Laurinen, Pentti I ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONTEXTUAL EFFECTS; CONTRAST GAIN CONTROL PROCESSES; FINE SPATIAL DISCRIMINATIONS;

VISION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 28344448609     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.002230     Document Type: Article

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