Psychometric curves of lateral facilitation

Spatial Vision

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 413-426

  Shani, Revital ^a   Sagi, Dov ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Lateral interactions; Psychometric function; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; ERROR CORRECTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LATERAL INTERACTIONS; NON-LINEAR TRANSDUCTION; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTIONS;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33750540819     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856806778457386     Document Type: Article

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