Narrow-band radial frequency shape channels revealed by sub-threshold summation

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 843-850

  Bell, Jason ^a,b   Badcock, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Channel; Contour; Global; Radial frequency; Shape; Summation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 64049116773     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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