Backward masking and the central performance drop

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 2587-2596

  Gurnsey, Rick ^a   Di Lenardo, David ^a   Potechin, Cindy ^a  

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

Author keywords

Backward masking; Central performance drop; Peripheral vision; Texture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL PERFORMANCE DROP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 3242791663     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.05.023     Document Type: Article

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