Local motion processing limits fine direction discrimination in the periphery

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1719-1725

  Mareschal, Isabelle ^a,b   Bex, Peter J ^a,c   Dakin, Steven C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Equivalent noise; Motion; Periphery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 46749088219     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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