A 'first stage' central performance drop in a Gabor luminance-modulation detection task

Spatial Vision

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 427-437

  Kehrer, Lothar ^a   Meinecke, Cristina ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central performance drop; Eccentricity; Spatial frequency; Texture

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

CENTRAL PERFORMANCE DROP; ECCENTRICITY; SPATIAL FREQUENCIES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISUAL FIELD;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHTING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33750570989     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856806778457359     Document Type: Article

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