Discrimination of amplitude spectrum slope in the fovea and parafovea and the local amplitude distributions of natural scene imagery

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 696-711

  Hansen, Bruce C ^a,b   Hess, Robert F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amplitude spectra; Natural image statistics; Natural scene perception; Texture segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REFERENCE VALUE; RETINA FOVEA; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745263034     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.7.3     Document Type: Article

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