Effect of noise on the contrast detection threshold in visual perception

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 408, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 94-97

  Sasaki, Hitoshi ^a   Todorokihara, Masayoshi ^b   Ishida, Takuya ^a   Miyachi, Junichiro ^a   Kitamura, Tahei ^c   Aoki, Ryozo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c Dept of Information Processing Engineering College of Industrial Technology 1 27 1 Nishikoya   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dipper effect; Humans; Signal detection sensitivity; Stochastic resonance; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE NOISE;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33749352902     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.08.054     Document Type: Article

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