Threshold units: A correct metric for reaction time?

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 608-611

  Zele, Andrew J ^a   Cao, Dingcai ^a   Pokorny, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast; Metric; Reaction time; Suprathreshold; Threshold unit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; HUMAN; METRIC SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RETINA ROD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RODS (RETINA); SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33846917211     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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