Nonlinear characterization of a simple process in human vision

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1-29

  Neri, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Detection discrimination; Lightness brightness perception; Spatial vision; Texture, receptive fields

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LIGHT; NERVE CELL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; VISION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRIMATES; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 77950354084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.12.1     Document Type: Article

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