The three dimensions of human visual sensitivity to first-order contrast statistics

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 2237-2248

  Chubb, Charles ^a   Nam, Jong Ho ^c   Bindman, Daniel R ^b   Sperling, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALEKS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Blackshot; Contrast; Scramble; Texture perception; Texture segregation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST; HISTOGRAM; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 34547130345     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.03.025     Document Type: Article

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