The influence of fixation points on contrast detection and discrimination of patches of grating: Masking and facilitation

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1894-1900

  Summers, Robert J ^a   Meese, Tim S ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Fixation point; Human vision; Masking; Methods; Psychometric function; Psychophysics; Slope

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACILITATION; GRATING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 67349216177     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.04.027     Document Type: Article

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