Measuring and modelling the spatial contrast sensitivity of the chicken (Gallus g. domesticus)

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1448-1454

  Jarvis, John R ^a   Abeyesinghe, Siobhan M ^a   McMahon, Claire E ^a   Wathes, Christopher M ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acuity; Chicken; Cortical; Fourier; Modulation transfer function; Spatial contrast sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67349137053     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.02.019     Document Type: Article

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