Spatial contrast sensitivity and grating acuity of barn owls

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Harmening, Wolf M ^a   Nikolay, Petra ^a   Orlowski, Julius ^a   Wagner, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal vision; Barn owl; Contrast sensitivity; Detection discrimination; Spatial vision; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MALE; OWL; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRIGIFORMES; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 67651160582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.7.13     Document Type: Article

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