The response of the amblyopic visual system to noise

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 2531-2542

  Levi, Dennis M ^a   Klein, Stanley A ^a   Chen, Inning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Classification images; Double pass; Internal noise; Psychophysics; Reverse correlation; White noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRABISMUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; WHITE NOISE;

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548407874     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.06.014     Document Type: Article

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