Separate first- and second-order processing is supported by spatial summation estimates at the fovea and eccentrically

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 581-596

  Sukumar, Subash ^a,b   Waugh, Sarah J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast; Luminance; Peripheral vision; Second order vision; Spatial scaling; Spatial summation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MODULATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL SUMMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE NOISE;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LIGHTING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33846908108     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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