Inverse modeling of human contrast response

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 2855-2867

  Katkov, Mikhail ^a   Tsodyks, Misha ^a   Sagi, Dov ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Categorization; Contrast response function; Criteria variability; Identification; Noise; Psychophysics; Signal Detection Theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CRITERION VARIABLE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34548727304     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.06.024     Document Type: Article

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