Orientation discrimination in human vision: Psychophysics and modeling

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 26-46

  Beaudot, William H A ^a,b   Mullen, Kathy T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b R and D   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gain control model; Human vision; Orientation discrimination; Orientation selectivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOLECULAR MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 28744449414     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.10.016     Document Type: Article

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