Size matters, but not for everyone: Individual differences for contrast discrimination

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 928-947

  Meese, Tim S ^a   Hess, Robert F ^b   Williams, Cristyn B ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human vision; Inhibition; Lateral interactions; Masking; Suppression; Surround

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 29944442197     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.11.2     Document Type: Article

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