Contrast masking in strabismic amblyopia: Attenuation, noise, interocular suppression and binocular summation

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1625-1640

  Baker, Daniel H ^a,b   Meese, Tim S ^a   Hess, Robert F ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amblyopia; Contrast discrimination; Human vision; Masking; Noise; Strabismus

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE REFRACTION; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTEROCULAR TRANSFER; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STRABISMUS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 45849100482     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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