Effects of retinal image degradation on preattentive visual search (PAVS) efficiency for flicker, movement and orientation stimuli

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 456-463

  Davison, Peter ^a   Loughman, James ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Blur; Displacement; Flicker; Orientation; Pre attentive visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MONITOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RETINA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; MYOPIA; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RETINA; VISION TESTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747098465     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2006.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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