Contextual effects on fine orientation discrimination tasks

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 2988-2997

  Saylor, Stephanie A ^a   Olzak, Lynn A ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Figure ground segregation; Lateral masking; Orientation discrimination; Scene organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 33745241634     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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