How to use individual differences to isolate functional organization, biology, and utility of visual functions; With illustrative proposals for stereopsis

Spatial Vision

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 561-579

  Wilmer, Jeremy B ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Latent variable; Psychophysics; Twin; Utility; Vision; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; LATENT VARIABLE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TWIN; UTILITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

BIOLOGY; PHYSICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

VISION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION;

BIOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 60249102781     PISSN: 01691015     EISSN: 15685683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156856808786451408     Document Type: Article

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