Fixed or variable noise in contrast discrimination? The jury's still out...

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 4294-4303

  Georgeson, Mark A ^a   Meese, Tim S ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 33750015495     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.08.024     Document Type: Letter

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