Second-order spatial frequency and orientation channels in human vision

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 2798-2803

  Ellemberg, Dave ^a,b   Allen, Harriet A ^c   Hess, Robert F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channels; Detection threshold; First order; Orientation; Second order; Spatial frequency; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33646141369     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.01.028     Document Type: Article

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